【抑制温室气体排放的牧草】Nicola Jones. Grass gets greener. Nature 501 291 (19 September 2013) doi:10.1038-501291a

 

Industrial power plants take most of the flack for climate change. But nature’s plants are not blameless: agricultural land is responsible for about 14% of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions slightly more than the global contribution from planes trains and automobiles. So researchers have tried to ‘green’ up agriculture by breeding plants that cut the emissions associated with wasted fertilizer.

On 13 September researchers announced that they have bred a tropical pasture grass that can significantly suppress greenhouse-gas emissions. The team from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali Colombia is working with Dow AgroSciences based in Indianapolis Indiana to get seeds onto the market in the next 3–5 years.

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