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Technical Report – The aim of this work is to provide protected area managers, conservation practitioners, farmers, policy developers and any other professionals or volunteersresponsible for the conservation of crop wild relatives (CWR) populations, somepractical guidelines on how to manage the target...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
Ehsan Dulloo (Conservation and Availability Programme Leader at Bioversity International) and Nigel Maxted (Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and PGR Secure Project Coordinator) explain in this video why crop wild relatives are important and how monitoring, conserving and using them...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
This policy brief recommends eight specific actions to assure conservation of important crop wild relatives (CWR) in Nordic region. CWRs are wild species closely related to crops and they can contain many important traits missing from modern cultivars. Because of this, they can be used in adaptation...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2019
The study presents an updated overview of the 14 non-endemic threatened crop wild relatives (CWR) in Italy. Geographical distribution, ecology (with plant communities and habitat 92/43/EEC aspects), genetics (focused on gene pools), property, and in situ and ex situ conservation were analyzed. In addition,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2021
The eBook “Crop Wild Relatives and their Use in Plant Breeding” is being developed through a collaboration between Colorado State University and the United States Department of Agriculture. It consists of eight chapters that highlight various concepts and case studies related to crop wild relatives. ...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020