“The one who possesses the food possesses the arm, which is stronger than a nuclear bomb. There are only two real powers in the world—the power of energy resources and the power of food.”
(Earl Butz, the United States Secretary of Agriculture in President Ford’s administration in the 1970s)
“Want to easily conquer any country? Start feeding it with your food.” (Tsar Ivan the Terrible, 1580)
Abstract
A novel plant epigenetic regulatory system is reported. This is a change in product spectra of genes determining a productivity trait caused by a change in a limiting factor of the environment. Based on this discovery, the Theory of Ecogenetic Organization of Plant Quantitative Traits (TEGOPQT) was elaborated over the period from 1984 to 2014. The Theory gave rise to 24 prognostic corollaries and 10 know-hows. They are able to increase sharply the effectiveness of plant breeding aimed at higher yields. The prerequisite of this success is a creation of a priority breeding phytotron in the Russian Federation. The paper lists the necessary biophysical instruments and other devices that are needed to equip the growth chambers of the phytotron.
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The work was supported by the Russian Foundation of Basic Research, project nos. 07-04-01714, 13-01-96519, and 16-04-00199.
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Dragavtsev, V.A. Novel Regulatory System in Plants and the Necessity of a Breeding Phytotron in the Russian Federation. Tech. Phys. 63, 1288–1292 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784218090050
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