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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Field inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) offers a promising route to improve sustainable agriculture and food production, yet results are often variable. We investigated the mycorrhizal growth response of maize and wheat varieties recommended for farmers and found substantial variation under greenhouse conditions.
Ido Rog +5 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann +4 more
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Pigeonpea germplasm in China [PDF]
, 2001 The current status of pigeon pea germplasm in China is briefly discussed. A summary of pigeon pea germplasm collections in China is presented, including the year, area and number of collections, and the important ...
Zhenghong, Li +4 more
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Plants back: Re‐envisioning botanical garden collections management for indigenous crops
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Botanical gardens and other ex situ collections play a key role in preventing plant extinctions, yet the needs of Indigenous crop cultivars are not being met by conventional botanical collections management practices. Inspired by Indigenous land care restoration movements centering plant–human–society relationships, we propose a path toward reciprocal ...
Uala Working Group +8 more
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, 2009 Exotic and unadapted varieties contribute advantageous alleles to crop species. Incorporating exotic germplasm into adapted lines has the additional advantage of broadening the genetic diversity within the common maize germplasm pool.
Eller, Magen Starr
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MORPHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF FIFTEEN SWEET POTATO GERMPLASM [PDF]
, 2020 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN HORTICULTUREA field experiment was performed to study ...
MUNTAHA, SAJARATUL
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Grape (Vitis L.) biodiversity: Historical uses, current status, and future potential
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Grapes (Vitis L. ‐ Vitaceae) are among the most important fruit crops globally, consumed in the form of wine, fresh fruit, raisins, and in many products. Complex and fascinating biocultural processes underpin the crop, with a remarkable assemblage of species comprising grapevines and with heterogeneous viticultural practices and rapidly advancing new ...
Colin K. Khoury +4 more
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Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Wild grapevines (Vitis L.) native to the Americas are ecologically and culturally important plants that are also critical to the global cultivated grape industry as sources of traits for crop innovation, but many of these species are poorly documented and insufficiently conserved.
Daniel Carver +15 more
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The Role of Biotechnology in Exploiting and Using Plant Germplasm
, 2012 Following the inauguration of this National Plant Genetic Resources Centre, it is particularly timely to assess the role of biotechnology in relation to plant genetic resources conservation now and into the next century.
Edward Charles Cocking
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, 2021 This catalog contains information on all accessions of drum germplasm evaluated by the project comprising 11603 ...
Damania, Ardeshir B.
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