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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Review of congruence between global crop wild relative hotspots and centres of crop origin/diversity

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are important sources of adaptive diversity for plant breeding programmes. This paper aims to investigate the extent to which the centres of crop origin/diversity are congruent with areas of high CWR diversity.  The study established the predicted potential CWR distributions for 1,425 CWR species related to 167 crops using 334,527 known distribution locations and generated a global CWR hotspot map.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectCrop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
PublisherGenetic Resources and Crop Evolution
Publication year2021
RegionsGlobal
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10722-021-01114-7.pdf
KeywordsCrop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species; Plant breeding; Agricultural biodiversity
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