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711) Crop wild relatives in durum wheat breeding: Drift or thrift?
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are an important source of genetic diversity for crop improvement. The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of deploying CWRs in durum wheat [Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum (Desf.) van Slageren] breeding. A set of 60 accessions was selected to include cultivars...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
712) Food Forever Initiative
Food Forever is an initiative to show that biodiversity is key. If we do it right and we do it together, food can drive the positive changes our world needs.The goal of the Initiative is to rally the support necessary from all stakeholders – be it politicians, farmers, chefs, businesses, or individuals...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
713) Varietal Timelines and Leadership Challenges Affecting the Legacy of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov - with Dr. Joel Cohen - Podcast
Podcast episode - Nikolai Vavilov was an agronomist and seed collector whose life spanned the regimes of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. These were years plagued by extreme famine, especially in the Ukraine. Vavilov strove to follow Mendelian science and practices to improve plant breeding programs,...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
714) Strengths and weaknesses of organized crop seed production by smallholder farmers: A five-country case study
In many countries, smallholder farmers play a key role in food crop seed production. So far, the community roles, operational structures, seed production efficiency, aspects of sustainability, and the social and policy environments in which these groups operate have been poorly studied and described....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2022
715) Gap analyses of priority wild relatives of food crop in current ex situ and in situ conservation in Indonesia
Conservation programmes are always limited by available resources. Careful planning is therefore required to increase the efficiency of conservation and gap analysis can be used for this purpose. This method was used to assess the representativeness of current ex situ and in situ conservation actions...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2021