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Over the last 100 years massive effort in agronomy and plant breeding has been put into developing high-yielding crops and their products. Much of the improvement has resulted from breeding to divert photosynthate from sites within the plant that are (apparently) less useful agriculturally to more useful sites. Improved grain yield is an obvious example. In analysing these developments and future prospects, Lester Brown (1997) has emphasized that: ‘once plant breeders have pushed genetic yield potential close to the physiological limit, then further advances rely on the expanded use of basic inputs such as... fertilizer.’ Certainly, there has been — at least in developed countries — massive investment in fertilizer production and increased understanding of how fertilizer use can be better managed (Loneragan, 1997). Nevertheless, it seems rather depressing to those working in the field of plant nutrition that it may be necessary to rely primarily on fertilizers further to increase plant productivity (or grain quality), even in developed countries. In developing countries where fertilizer use is minimal, to rely on high input of fertilizers to improve plant productivity seems even more depressing.
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Smith, F.A., Smith, S.E., Reid, R.J. (1999). Membranes and Nutrition: Opportunities for Integration and Progress. In: Gissel-Nielsen, G., Jensen, A. (eds) Plant Nutrition — Molecular Biology and Genetics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2685-6_32
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