Improving Perennial Plants for Food and Bioenergy, Inc.

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The Improving Perennial Plants for Food and Bioenergy, Inc. believes that the earth provides abundant resources that can be used for the benefit of life by wise and prudent stewardship of mankind. The breeding of enhanced varieties of perennial plants such as trees, forbs, and grasses can restore balance to the natural environment and produce abundant food, timber, and energy for mankind and conserve and enhance the quality of the earth's soil.

Improving frost-resistance to increase yields

We have the ability to dramatically improve our environment, lifestyles, health, and future prosperity by dramatically increasing world biomass production to harvest excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This would ensure adequate supplies of more nutritious and health promoting food, reduce our addiction to and dependence on fossil fuels, enhance our environment, and mitigate many of the causes of global warming and its disastrous effects. The greatest opportunities for increasing biomass production involves planting billions of genetically improved trees and other perennial plants along with harvesting and replacing dead, dying and inferior plants with adapted, productive cultivars to obtain a high percentage of plants in their rapid growth phase.

Genetic and other improvements would increase food and biofuel production, as well as mitigate many of the causes of global warming

Perennial trees, shrubs, grasses, legumes and other forbs adapted to land not suitable for sustainable production of cultivated annual crops will produce much of the added food, timber, fuel, and fiber needed to feed, house, and supply energy to the current world's poor and hungry as well as projected population increases of the future. Perennial crops including trees, grasses, shrubs, legumes and other forbs will preserve and enhance our precious soil and water resources. Great opportunities exist for the genetic improvement and culture of hundreds of species of underutilized perennial plants capable of sustainable growth and production on the vast areas of degraded and other lands unsuitable for cultivated annual crops.