Ecological intensification of agricultural practices can be a minimum input agriculture with a maximum utilization of the epigenetic potential for a maximum output.

The application of Quantitative Population Epigenetics as a catalyst for sustainable agriculture offers earning opportunities (market segments or business cases) for the existing players in the high-input agriculture in terms of win-win.

For example, agriculture is a major factor in eutrophication of surface waters. By using epigenetically active compounds to switch on yield or stress genes, new crop varieties for low-input agriculture could be developed to improve nitrogen and water use efficiency for cereal production significantly

Stauss, R.

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The use of quantitative population epigenetics and the related importance of stress can lead to a paradigm shift, away from a high-input and high-output agriculture with a maximum utilization of the genetic potential to an ecological intensification, to a low-input and high-output agriculture which is optimization and harmonization of limiting stress factors to achieve maximum results with limited environmental or ecological resources

Stauß, Reinhold

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NJF seminar 461 Organic farming systems as a driver for change, 21-23 August 2013 in Bredsten, Denmark Reinhold Stauß Ritzebeker Weg 13, 24222 Schwentinental district Klausdorf, Germany Reinhold.Stauss@web.de DISCUSSION This approach offers earning opportunities (market segments or business cases) for the existing players in the high-input agriculture in terms of win-win), especially in utilization of genotype-environment interactions, such as • nutritional deficiencies and for example use of a genotype-low-nitrogen interaction (low input/high output-varieties, breeding companies), • bioactive "additives" (regulator-active compounds) to switch on yield genes of nitrogen deficiency (chemical industry, fertilizer industry) and • drought/seed treatment with anti-apoptotic substances (chemical industry, fertilizer industry, breeding companies, agricultural engineering companies). The cultural sustainability (values, appreciation, ethics, customs, agriCulture, ...) as unifying element for the environmental, economic and social pillar is the (positive) stress (maximization of 1-h2) for a paradigm shift in the behavior of stakeholders: • credibility and awareness, life style issues, • Corporate Social Responsibility, • low-input with high-output of food and, for example clean water, biodiversity, landscape, agriCulture, ..., and • win-win situation for the actors of today's intensive agriculture. IMPLICATION Ecological intensification of agricultural practices, can be a minimum input agriculture (maximization of 1-h2) with a maximum utilization of the epigenetic potential for a maximum output: •low input with high output and •utilization of the genetic potential (inherited characteristics) and the environmental potential or environmental inheritance (acquired characteristics). EXAMPLE Linking Nature-Oriented Forestry to Economic Gains in Germany:  The concept of “Nature-Oriented Forestry” for the 5,000 ha of temperate forest in the city of Lübeck [http://www.dbu.de/projekt_25243/_db_1036.html] Quantitative Population Epigenetics  a Catalyst for Sustainable Agriculture Foto: H. Ellenberg 

Quantitative Population Epigenetics a Catalyst for Sustainable Agriculture

The use of quantitative population epigenetics and the related importance of stress can lead to a paradigm shift, away from a high-input and high-output agriculture with a maximum utilization of the genetic potential to an ecological intensification, to a low-input and high-output agriculture which is optimization and harmonization of limiting stress factors to achieve maximum results with limited environmental or ecological resources.Keywords: Agricultural ethics, ecological intensification of agricultural practices, high-output, low-input, quantitative population epigenetics, stressQuantitative Populations-Epigenetik, Katalysator für eine nachhaltige LandwirtschaftZusammenfassungDie Anwendung der quantitativen Populations-Epigenetik und die damit verbundene Bedeutung von Stress kann einen Paradigmenwechsel unterstützen, weg von einer „High-Input, High-Output“-Landwirtschaft mit einer maximalen Ausnutzung des genetischen Potentials hin zu einer ökologischen Intensivierung, zu einer Optimierung und Harmonisierung von begrenzenden Stressfaktoren, zu einer „Low-Input, High-Output“-Landwirtschaft, mit einer maximalen Nutzung des Umweltpotentiales.Stichwörter: Agrarethik, High-Output, Kulturelle Nachhaltigkeit, Low-Input, ökologische Intensivierung der Landwirtschaft, quantitative Populations-Epigenetik, Stres

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Quantitative Population Epigenetics a Catalyst for Sustainable Agriculture

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