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371) Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity
Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture. While alarms regarding evident declines in crop diversity have been raised for over a century, the magnitude, trajectory, drivers and significance of these losses remain insufficiently understood. Authors outline...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
372) Crop Interdependence, Adaptation to Climate Change and the Multilateral Systems of Access and Benefit Sharing: The Case of Nepal
Improving farmers’ access to more plant diversity is expected to be an effective strategy to respond to climate changes. Degrees of current crop interdependency were estimated based on the origin and pedigree analysis of modern varieties of rice, wheat and potato cultivated in Nepal. Geographical information...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2017
373) Crop Science special issue: Adapting agriculture to climate change: A walk on the wild side
Plant domestication and crop improvement have resulted in reduced genetic diversity in most of our cultivated crops, thus limiting their potential to adapt to future challenges. Crop wild relatives (CWR) and landraces are a potentially valuable source of these alleles. This special issue presents a series...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
374) Crop Varietal Mixtures as a Strategy to Support Insect Pest Control, Yield, Economic, and Nutritional Services
Most on-farm diversification strategies to enhance ecosystem services, such as insect pest control and yield, have focused on expanding crop species diversity. While polycultures often provide valuable services, logistical constraints with planting and harvesting can hamper implementation on large scales....
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
375) Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science
The authors tested if crowdsourced citizen science can address this challenge, producing empirical data across geographic space that, in aggregate, can characterize varietal climatic responses. They present the results of 12,409 farmer-managed experimental plots of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia
Publication year: 2019