TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gerullis, Maria
AU  - Pieruschka, Roland
AU  - Fahrner, Sven
AU  - Hartl, Lorenz
AU  - Schurr, Ulrich
AU  - Heckelei, Thomas
TI  - From genes to policy: mission-oriented governance of plant-breeding research and technologies
JO  - Frontiers in plant science
VL  - 14
SN  - 1664-462X
CY  - Lausanne
PB  - Frontiers Media
M1  - FZJ-2023-03327
SP  - 1235175
PY  - 2023
AB  - Mission-oriented governance of research focuses on inspirational, yet attainable goals and targets the sustainable development goals through innovation pathways. We disentangle its implications for plant breeding research and thus impacting the sustainability transformation of agricultural systems, as it requires improved crop varieties and management practices. Speedy success in plant breeding is vital to lower the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, increase crop resilience to climate stresses and reduce postharvest losses. A key question is how this success may come about? So far plant breeding research has ignored wider social systems feedbacks, but governance also failed to deliver a set of systemic breeding goals providing directionality and organization to research policy of the same. To address these challenges, we propose a heuristic illustrating the core elements needed for governing plant breeding research: Genetics, Environment, Management and Social system (GxExMxS) are the core elements for defining directions for future breeding. We illustrate this based on historic cases in context of current developments in plant phenotyping technologies and derive implications for governing research infrastructures and breeding programs. As part of mission-oriented governance we deem long-term investments into human resources and experimental set-ups for agricultural systems necessary to ensure a symbiotic relationship for private and public breeding actors and recommend fostering collaboration between social and natural sciences for working towards transdisciplinary collaboration.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 37731976
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001068667500001
DO  - DOI:10.3389/fpls.2023.1235175
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1014477
ER  -