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651) Agrobiodiversity Conservation: Securing the Diversity of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces
By considering the benefits of understanding and preserving crop wild relatives and landraces, this book encompasses issues as wide-ranging and topical as habitat protection, ecosystem health and food security. The book is based on the 2010 conference 'Towards the establishment of genetic reserves for...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe; Global
Publication year: 2011
652) An initiative for the study and use of genetic diversity of domesticated plants and their wild relatives
Domestication has been influenced by formal plant breeding since the onset of intensive agriculture and the Green Revolution. Despite providing food security for some regions, intensive agriculture has had substantial detrimental consequences for the environment and does not fulfill smallholder’s needs...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2018
653) Bringing landraces back home, 50 years later
Back in 1966-67, researcher Ángel Kato from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) collected 93 maize landraces samples from 66 families in Mexico’s state of Morelos. These seeds were safeguarded in CIMMYT’s Germplasm Bank, which today stores 28,000 samples of maize and its...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020
654) Germplasm rescue and rebuilding local seed systems in red zone areas
Native agrobiodiversity become endangered and even lost due to natural disasters in red zone area such as earthquake that hit Nepal on April and May 2015. Endangered agricultural genetic resources should be rescued and revival of disrupted local seed system was essential for sustainable and productive...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2020
655) Collaborative Plant Breeding for Organic Agricultural Systems in Developed Countries
This paper presents two specific studies: the first was a researcher-designed experiment that assessed the potential adaptation of landraces to organic systems through on-farm cultivation and farmer selection. The second is a farmer-led plant breeding project to select bread wheat for organic systems...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2011