Seed banks as incidental fungi banks: Fungal endophyte diversity in stored seeds of banana wild relatives [PDF]
, 2021 Seed banks were first established to conserve crop genetic diversity, but seed banking has more recently been extended to wild plants, particularly crop wild relatives (CWRs) (e.g., by the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB), Royal Botanic Gardens Kew). CWRs have
Downes, Elizabeth +28 more
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CWRML: representing crop wild relative conservation and use data in XML [PDF]
, 2008 Background Crop wild relatives are wild species that are closely related to crops. They are valuable as potential gene donors for crop improvement and may help to ensure food security for the future. However, they are becoming increasingly threatened in
Kell, Shelagh +18 more
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Ethnobotanical investigation of 'wild' food plants used by rice farmers in Kalasin, Northeast Thailand [PDF]
, 2011 Background Wild food plants are a critical component in the subsistence system of rice farmers in Northeast Thailand. One of the important characteristics of wild plant foods among farming households is that the main collection locations are increasingly
Price Lisa L +5 more
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A gap analysis methodology for collecting crop genepools: a case study with Phaseolus beans [PDF]
, 2010 Background 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 ...
Debouck, D.G. +23 more
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A Practical Approach on Creating a Restricted Ontology for Crop Wild Relatives [PDF]
, 2007 The task to identify a subset of about 400 terms highly relevant to crop wild relatives was performed as a continuation to an earlier project where a set of about 11400 term was extracted from on-line sources.
Hulden, Morten
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Origins of the amphiploid species Brassica napus L. investigated by chloroplast and nuclear molecular markers [PDF]
, 2010 Background: The amphiploid species Brassica napus (oilseed rape, Canola) is a globally important oil crop yielding food, biofuels and industrial compounds such as lubricants and surfactants.
Allender, Charlotte J +9 more
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Spontaneous gene flow and population structure in wild and cultivated chicory, Cichorium intybus L. [PDF]
, 2008 Spontaneous gene flow between wild and cultivated chicory, Cichorium intybus L., may have implications for the genetic structure and evolution of populations and varieties.
Hauser, Thure P. +58 more
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Organoids in pediatric cancer research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Organoid technology has revolutionized cancer research, yet its application in pediatric oncology remains limited. Recent advances have enabled the development of pediatric tumor organoids, offering new insights into disease biology, treatment response, and interactions with the tumor microenvironment.
Carla Ríos Arceo, Jarno Drost
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Introgression potential between safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) and wild relatives of the genus Carthamus [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Safflower, Carthamus tinctorius, is a thistle that is grown commercially for the production of oil and birdseed and recently, as a host for the production of transgenic pharmaceutical proteins. C.
Good, Allen G. +4 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Structural and biochemical characterisations show that the planar cell polarity (PCP) protein Inturned harbours a unique PDZ‐like domain that does not bind canonical PDZ‐binding motifs (PBMs) like that of another PCP protein Vangl2. In contrast, the apical‐basal polarity protein Scribble contains four PDZ domains that bind Vangl2, but one PDZ domain ...
Stephan Wilmes +4 more
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