Plant Genomics

Biography

Biography: Saheed Opeyemi

Abstract

Global development indicators are measured on human wellbeing, socio-economic values and environment safety; hence, linkages to these include food security, healthy ecosystem and safe planet for all. The Earth is overloaded with contaminants from anthropogenic activities while human prosperity is threatened with climate chemical and physical alterations. Several millions of world population remains vulnerable to various natural and man-made disasters including extreme poverty, biosphere pollution, malnutrition, hunger, pest risks, biodiversity loss, species extinction, land degradation and crop loss. The world population growth is projected to reach 9 billion by 2050 from current estimate of 7 billion with about 795 million people undernourished, over a billion living on less than $1.25 a day and 1.4 billion suffering from diseases. This paper recommend participation of plant scientists through innovative breeding and biotechnology to lead and drive solutions initiative in smart agro-system and high-tech investigations to increase crop productivity and food supply to ever shooting global population and mitigate the challenges associated with crop yield. Sustainable control of crop loss and food wastage requires scientifically tailored interventions, effective funding, globalized data-structure and partnerships to combat hunger and malnutrition, improve plant nutrient and water use, reduce agro-chemicals dependent and create alternative crop-environment modeling techniques. Clean evidences on the viability, applicability, reliability and sustainability of genomics and related sciences are invaluable opportunities to discover, invent, create and recreate more genetic resources and workable tools for the implementation of the sustainable development goals for people’s wellbeing.