Crop diversification can contribute to disease risk control in sustainable biofuels production
| Autor: | G. David Tilman, Timothy E. Crews, Jonathan B. Shurin, James D. Bever, Robert C. McBride, Val H. Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Ecology
Natural resource economics business.industry Agricultural diversification Crop yield fungi food and beverages Crop rotation complex mixtures Renewable energy Biotechnology Climate Action Infectious Diseases Affordable and Clean Energy Bioenergy Biofuel Sustainability Monoculture business Responsible Consumption and Production Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol 13, iss 10 Smith, VH; McBride, RC; Shurin, JB; Bever, JD; Crews, TE; & Tilman, GD. (2015). Crop diversification can contribute to disease risk control in sustainable biofuels production. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 13(10), 561-567. doi: 10.1890/150094. UC Santa Barbara: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/17w4n1p4 |
| ISSN: | 1540-9295 |
| DOI: | 10.1890/150094 |
| Popis: | © The Ecological Society of America. Global demand for transportation fuels will increase rapidly during the upcoming decades, and concerns about fossil-fuel consumption have stimulated research on renewable biofuels that can be sustainably produced from biological feedstocks. However, if unchecked, pathogens and parasites are likely to infect these cultivated biofuel feedstocks, greatly reducing crop yields and potentially threatening the sustainability of renewable bioenergy production efforts. In particular, clonal biofuel crops grown as monocultures at industrial scales will be confronted both by an accumulation of specialist pathogens over time, and by the rapid evolution of those pathogens. We propose possible solutions to these important sustainability problems, with a focus on managing disease risk through crop rotations and the cultivation of multi-species polycultures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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