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Run-up webinar series for the GenRes Bridge project Feedback Workshop on the European Genetic Resources Strategy. In this webinar, with Jade Phillips, Enrico Sturaro and Tor Myking present demonstration cases that provide an argument for the conservation of genetic resources at landscape level.Read more...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2020
This review paper provides a brief, yet comprehensive and broad, overview of the main threats to tropical plant biodiversity and how they differ from threats in temperate regions. The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, an international program with 16 global targets set for 2020 aimed at understanding,...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2013
Landraces are characterised by high heterogeneity and have the advantage of being much better adapted to changing conditions. This study focused on identifying the areas with the richest genetic diversity of vegetables in Transylvania, Romania, as well as the main vulnerabilities related to seed production...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2020
Wild food plants are important resources for people living in dry areas of Kenya. A botanical inventory of vascular plants of Kitui county was compiled from specimens collected during field investigations in Kitui county, at the East African herbarium and from literature reporting on plants of Kitui...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are an essential source of genetic material for the improvement of certain traits in related crop species. Despite their importance, increasing public, scientific and political support, large gaps exist in the amount of genetic material collected and conserved of many CWR. This...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021