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The mission of the Green Crop Network (GCN) is to engage the best microbial, soil and plant scientists in Canada, in a collective research program designed to enhance the understanding of the genetic, physiological and ecological processes of crop plants, and to discover ways that these processes may be exploited to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. If a “crop” is considered to include both the crop plant and the system of water, nutrients and air that supports its growth and development, then a “green crop” is one that has been developed to produce food, feed, fibre or biomass for biofuel production or carbon sequestration under current and future carbon dioxide (CO2) conditions, with a minimal environmental impact.
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