Germplasm Collection Gaps and Species Richness of Wild Relatives of Important Root, Tuber and Banana Crops.

The wild relatives of crops represent a major source of valuable traits for crop improvement. These resources are threatened by habitat destruction, land use changes, and other factors, requiring their urgent collection and long-term availability for research and breeding from ex situ collections. W...

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Autores principales: Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P., Khoury, Colin K., Sosa, Chrystian C., Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Bernau, V.
Formato: Conjunto de datos
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77653
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Sumario:The wild relatives of crops represent a major source of valuable traits for crop improvement. These resources are threatened by habitat destruction, land use changes, and other factors, requiring their urgent collection and long-term availability for research and breeding from ex situ collections. We propose a method to identify gaps in ex situ collections (i.e. gap analysis) of crop wild relatives as a means to guide efficient and effective collecting activities.