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Asian Journal of Biotechnology

Year: 2011 | Volume: 3 | Issue: 4 | Page No.: 337-344
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Baby Joseph

D. Jini

S.U. Ajisha

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Fight Global Warming with Genetically Altered Trees

Baby Joseph, D. Jini and S.U. Ajisha
Genetically modified plants are simply plants, whose genetic material has been modified. Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could sequester several billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into long-lived forms of carbon, first in vegetation and ultimately in soil and so help ameliorate global warming. Besides increasing the efficiency of plant’s absorption of light, researchers might be able to genetically alter plants so they send more carbon into their roots--where some may be converted into soil carbon and remain out of circulation for centuries. Other possibilities include altering plants so that they can better withstand the stresses of growing on marginal land and so that they yield improved bioenergy and food crops. Drought resistant plants can be produced by the use of genetic engineering, so that they can withstand in the stressed environment. The genetically altering plants, thereby increasing the efficiency of plant’s absorption of director scattered sunlight; making them send more carbon into their roots where some may be converted into soil carbon and remain out of circulation for centuries; making them better able to withstand the stresses of growing on marginal land, improving their yield, in terms of bioenergy and food crops. A combination of such genomic improvement might enormously increase the amount of carbon that vegetation naturally extracts from air. Such innovations might, in combination, boost substantially the amount of carbon that vegetation naturally extracts from air.
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