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1186) Evaluation of Wild Lentil Species as Genetic Resources to Improve Drought Tolerance in Cultivated Lentil
Increasingly unpredictable annual rainfall amounts and distribution patterns have far reaching implications for pulse crop biology. Seedling and whole plant survival will be affected given that water is a key factor in plant photosynthesis and also influences the evolving disease spectrum that affects...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
1187) BSF project "Marker assisted selection for potato germplasm adapted to biotic and abiotic stresses caused by global climate change"
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) ranks as the world's third most important food crop, after wheat and rice, and provides a significant contribution to the global food supply as well as playing a key role for food security and subsistence of Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andean smallholders. The extreme temperatures,...
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Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: N/A
1188) Rebuilding Local Seed System of Native Crops in Earthquake Affected Areas of Nepal - Proceedings of a National Sharingshop
The main aim of the project is to revive and strengthen local seed system capacity and resilience of households through rescue collection, conservation, multiplication and repatriation of native and threatened crop seeds in the most severely affected 10 districts of central and western Nepal, where farmers’...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2017
1189) The role of Biotechnology in exploring and protecting agricultural genetic resources
The book aims to provide an updated overview of the current status of the world's genetic resources for food and agriculture, of the use of biotechnology tools for characterizing and conserving these genetic resources, and of the many specific issues involved in applying them in developing countries....
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2006
1190) Adding value to landraces with cultural information
This presentation emphasizes the need to highlight the diverse use values of landraces/farmers' varieties to increase their value to society. The presentation was given by Maarit Heinonen at the workshop "Conservation strategies for European crop wild relative and landrace diversity", held in Palanga,...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2011