Results 221 to 230 of about 14,077 (260)

A Prioritized Inventory of Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Harvested Plants of Italy

Crop Science, 2014
ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to construct a solid basis for developing a crop wild relatives (CWR) and wild harvested plants (WHP) conservation strategy at the European and national levels. To this end we (i) worked out an annotated and synonymized Working Database of the Italian Vascular Plants, (ii) worked out a full CWR–WHP checklist for Italy,
LANDUCCI, FLAVIA, PANELLA, LORENZO, Lucarini, Domenico, GIGANTE, Daniela, DONNINI, Domizia, Kell, Shelagh, Maxted, Nigel, VENANZONI, Roberto, NEGRI, Valeria   +8 more
openaire   +1 more source

The Threats to Crop Wild Relatives

2019
In addition to climate change, there are several other threats to CWRs, such as, their loss, degradation, and fragmentation of their natural habitats, deforestation, logging, plantation and industrialized agriculture, forestry, dryland destruction and desertification, fire, urbanization, mining and quarrying, and, massive invasive species.
openaire   +1 more source

Crop wild relatives and climate change.

2014
Abstract This chapter provides an analysis of the importance of crop wild relatives (CWR) in plant breeding and the need for their comprehensive conservation. The importance of CWR diversity as a potentially critical resource for future food security is now widely recognized, particularly in the light of climate change and the rapidly ...
N. Maxted, S. Kell, J. M. Brehm
openaire   +1 more source

Collecting the Wild Relatives of Crops in the Tropics

2012
There remains much that is not known about wild relatives of major crops. Hence the need for further collecting and study of these wild genetic resources is warranted. In recent years international and legal aspects of collecting and using germplasm have changed and need to be considered carefully in the preparatory phase of collecting.
Duncan Vaughan, Yasuko Yoshida, Masaru Takeya, Norihiko Tomooka   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

A crop wild relative inventory for Brazil

Crop Science
Abstract Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are defined as wild plant taxa that are closely related to agricultural crops. In the face of global pressures of climates change and biodiversity loss, CWR requires urgent conservation attention.
Monique Moreira Moulin, Talles de Oliveira Santos, Semiramis Rabelo Ramalho Ramos, Nigel Maxted, Joana Magos Brehm   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

The DNA of Crop Plants and their Wild Relatives

1986
ABSTRACT Closely related species may differ widely both in the amount of total DNA and in the organisation of the DNA sequences within the genome. Examples of these kinds of differences among crop plants and their relatives are presented, and an attempt is made to evaluate the significance of such variation.
openaire   +1 more source

Crop wild relatives in the Netherlands: actors and protection measures.

2007
This book text presents methodologies and case studies that provide recommendations for the conservation and use of crop wild relatives. In a national, regional or global context, the status of crop wild relatives, that are closely related to crop plants, is examined.
Hoekstra, R., van Veller, M.G.P., Odé, B.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Using crop wild relatives as sources of useful genes.

2007
Wild plant genetic resources (PGR), and particularly crop wild relatives, represent a source of useful germplasm for the present and future generations. In the past, the majority of the information on PGR was based on phenotype, geographic origin, social history, and parentage In the last decades, advances in plant science and technology have provided ...
Sonnante G, Pignone D
openaire   +5 more sources

Ecosystem Services of Crop Wild Relatives

2019
Agricultural sustainability will, increasingly, in the course of time, depend on using crop wild relatives to combat the ravages of global warming.
openaire   +1 more source

Crop wild relatives (CWRs): a promise for the future of the European organic farming systems

Acta Horticulturae
The crop wild relatives (CWRs) are the COUSINs of domesticated crops which have represented since some decades an important source of natural genetic variation for the urgently required agroecological transition. In fact, CWRs can be important allies for reaching the transition results for more sustainable and nutritious food, in line with the EU Green
Branca, F., Bocci, R., Vasconcelos, M., Hohmann, P., Schöb, C.   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources