Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)

Crop wild relatives are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement. Knowledge gaps, including with regard to taxonomy, distributions, and characterization for traits of interest constrain their use in plant breeding. These deficiencies also affect conservation planning, both with regard to in s...

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Autores principales: Khoury, Colin K., Carver, Daniel, Kates, Heather R., Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Zonneveld, Maarten van, Thomas, Evert, Heinitz, Claire, Jarret, Robert L., Labate, Joanne A., Reitsma, Kathy, Nabhan, Gary P., Greene, Stephanie L.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106113
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author Khoury, Colin K.
Carver, Daniel
Kates, Heather R.
Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando
Zonneveld, Maarten van
Thomas, Evert
Heinitz, Claire
Jarret, Robert L.
Labate, Joanne A.
Reitsma, Kathy
Nabhan, Gary P.
Greene, Stephanie L.
author_browse Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando
Carver, Daniel
Greene, Stephanie L.
Heinitz, Claire
Jarret, Robert L.
Kates, Heather R.
Khoury, Colin K.
Labate, Joanne A.
Nabhan, Gary P.
Reitsma, Kathy
Thomas, Evert
Zonneveld, Maarten van
author_facet Khoury, Colin K.
Carver, Daniel
Kates, Heather R.
Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando
Zonneveld, Maarten van
Thomas, Evert
Heinitz, Claire
Jarret, Robert L.
Labate, Joanne A.
Reitsma, Kathy
Nabhan, Gary P.
Greene, Stephanie L.
author_sort Khoury, Colin K.
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description Crop wild relatives are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement. Knowledge gaps, including with regard to taxonomy, distributions, and characterization for traits of interest constrain their use in plant breeding. These deficiencies also affect conservation planning, both with regard to in situ habitat protection, and further collection of novel diversity for ex situ maintenance. Here we model the potential ranges of all 16 known wild cucurbit taxa (Cucurbita L.), use ecogeographic information to infer their potential adaptations to abiotic stresses, and assess their ex situ and in situ conservation status. The taxa occur from the central USA to Central America, plus two South American species. Predicted taxon richness was highest in central Mexico and in the western borderlands between Mexico and the USA. We find substantial ecogeographic variation both across taxa and among populations within taxa, with regard to low temperatures, high and low precipitation, and other adaptations of potential interest for crop breeding. We categorize 13 of the taxa medium priority for further conservation as a combination of the ex situ and in situ assessments, two low priority, and one sufficiently conserved. Further action across the distributions of the taxa, with emphasis on taxonomic richness hotspots, is needed to comprehensively conserve wild Cucurbita populations.
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spelling CGSpace1061132025-03-13T09:44:40Z Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.) Khoury, Colin K. Carver, Daniel Kates, Heather R. Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando Zonneveld, Maarten van Thomas, Evert Heinitz, Claire Jarret, Robert L. Labate, Joanne A. Reitsma, Kathy Nabhan, Gary P. Greene, Stephanie L. crop wild crop improvement plant breeding conservation taxonomy ex-situ conservation abiotic stress tolerance Crop wild relatives are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement. Knowledge gaps, including with regard to taxonomy, distributions, and characterization for traits of interest constrain their use in plant breeding. These deficiencies also affect conservation planning, both with regard to in situ habitat protection, and further collection of novel diversity for ex situ maintenance. Here we model the potential ranges of all 16 known wild cucurbit taxa (Cucurbita L.), use ecogeographic information to infer their potential adaptations to abiotic stresses, and assess their ex situ and in situ conservation status. The taxa occur from the central USA to Central America, plus two South American species. Predicted taxon richness was highest in central Mexico and in the western borderlands between Mexico and the USA. We find substantial ecogeographic variation both across taxa and among populations within taxa, with regard to low temperatures, high and low precipitation, and other adaptations of potential interest for crop breeding. We categorize 13 of the taxa medium priority for further conservation as a combination of the ex situ and in situ assessments, two low priority, and one sufficiently conserved. Further action across the distributions of the taxa, with emphasis on taxonomic richness hotspots, is needed to comprehensively conserve wild Cucurbita populations. 2020-05 2019-12-11T15:10:46Z 2019-12-11T15:10:46Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106113 en Open Access Wiley Khoury, Colin K. ; Carver, Daniel; Kates, Heather R.; Achicanoy, Harold A.; Zonneveld, Maarten van; Thomas, Evert; Heinitz, Claire; Jarret, Robert; Labate, Joanne A.; Reitsma, Kathy; Nabhan, Gary P. & Greene, Stephanie L. (2020).Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.). Plant People Planet 2(3) p. 269-283. ISSN: 2572-2611
spellingShingle crop wild
crop improvement
plant breeding
conservation
taxonomy
ex-situ conservation
abiotic stress
tolerance
Khoury, Colin K.
Carver, Daniel
Kates, Heather R.
Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando
Zonneveld, Maarten van
Thomas, Evert
Heinitz, Claire
Jarret, Robert L.
Labate, Joanne A.
Reitsma, Kathy
Nabhan, Gary P.
Greene, Stephanie L.
Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)
title Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)
title_full Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)
title_fullStr Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)
title_full_unstemmed Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)
title_short Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)
title_sort distributions conservation status and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits cucurbita l
topic crop wild
crop improvement
plant breeding
conservation
taxonomy
ex-situ conservation
abiotic stress
tolerance
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106113
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