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The wild relatives of crops represent a major source of valuable traits for crop improvement. These resources are threatened by habitat destruction, land use changes, and other factors, requiring their urgent collection and long-term availability for research and breeding from ex situ...
Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Khoury, Colin K.
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Jarvis, Andy
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Debouck, Daniel G.
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Guarino, Luigi
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[A gap analysis methodology for collecting crop genepools: a case study with Phaseolus Beans]
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A gap analysis methodology for collecting crop genepools: a case study with Phaseolus Beans
Khoury, Colin K.
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Dempewolf, Hannes
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Castañeda-Álvarez, Nora P.
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[Wild relatives: as rich sources of genetic diversity, the progenitors and kin of today’s food crops hold great promise for improving production in agriculture’s challenging future]
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Wild relatives: as rich sources of genetic diversity, the progenitors and kin of today’s food crops hold great promise for improving production in agriculture’s challenging future
The North American crop wild relatives (CWR) of lettuce (Lactuca L.) represent an underexplored pool of genetic diversity of potential value to breeding programs. The 10 species belong to three different groups: a native clade including at least six allotetraploid species [L. biennis (Moench) Fer...
Lebeda, Aleš
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Křístková, Eva
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Kitner, Miloslav
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Majeský, Ľuboš
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Doležalová, Ivana
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Khoury, Colin K.
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Widrlechner, Mark P.
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Hu, Jinguo
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Carver, Daniel
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Achicanoy, Harold A.E.
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Sosa, Chrystian C.
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[Research Gaps and Challenges in the Conservation and Use of North American Wild Lettuce Germplasm]
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Research Gaps and Challenges in the Conservation and Use of North American Wild Lettuce Germplasm
Graphics are becoming increasingly important for scientists to effectively communicate their findings to broad audiences, but most researchers lack expertise in visual media. We suggest collaboration between scientists and graphic designers as a way forward and discuss the results of a pilot proj...
The main objective of the“Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change” project is to collect and protect the genetic diversity of a portfolio of plants with the characteristics required for adapting the world's most important food crops to climate change. The initiative also aims to make available thi...
Dempewolf, Hannes
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Eastwood, Ruth J.
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Guarino, Luigi
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Khoury, Colin K.
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Muller, JV
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Toll, Jane
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[Adapting agriculture to climate change: a global initiative to collect, conserve, and use crop wild relatives]
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Adapting agriculture to climate change: a global initiative to collect, conserve, and use crop wild relatives
Sustainable diets are an environmental, economic and public health imperative, but identifying clear intervention points is challenging. The Entry points to Advance Transitions towards Sustainable diets (EATS) project seeks to repackage existing data, combined with an interview-informed awareness...
Heller, Martin C.
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Walchale, Abhijeet
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Heard, Brent
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Hoey, Lesli
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Khoury, Colin K.
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Haan, Stefan de
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Burra, Dharani Dhar
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Thi, Thanh Duong
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Osiemo, Jamleck
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Jones, Andrew D.
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[Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project]
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Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project
Newly released infographics show how the so-called “globalized diet” has emerged. It’s the story of massive change over the past 50 years in the foods people eat, of crop winners and losers, and most of all, of increasing similarity in the food supplies of countries worldwide. Here are five graph...
Kammlade, Sara
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Khoury, Colin K.
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Navarro-Racines, Carlos E.
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[50 years of changing diversity in global food supplies]
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50 years of changing diversity in global food supplies
Calderón Torres, Shirley
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Sosa, Chrystian C.
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Khoury, Colin K.
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[Impacto del cambio climático para el 2020 en la distribución potencial de Achira (Canna indica L.) en Colombia usando tres modelos de circulación global de la familia de escenarios de emisión A2 = Impact of climate change for 2020 in the potential distribution of Achira (Canna indica L.) in Colombia using three models of global movement of the family of emission scenarios A2.]
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Impacto del cambio climático para el 2020 en la distribución potencial de Achira (Canna indica L.) en Colombia usando tres modelos de circulación global de la familia de escenarios de emisión A2 = Impact of climate change for 2020 in the potential distribution of Achira (Canna indica L.) in Colombia using three models of global movement of the family of emission scenarios A2.
Crop wild relatives, the wild progenitors and closely related cousins of cultivated plant species, are sources of valuable genetic resources for crop improvement. Persisting gaps in knowledge of taxonomy, distributions, and characterization for traits of interest constrain their expanded use in p...
Mezghani, Najla
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Khoury, Colin K.
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Carver, Daniel
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Achicanoy, Harold A.E.
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Simon, Philipp
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Martínez Flores, Fernando
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Spooner, David
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[Distributions and Conservation Status of Carrot Wild Relatives in Tunisia: A Case Study in the Western Mediterranean Basin]
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Distributions and Conservation Status of Carrot Wild Relatives in Tunisia: A Case Study in the Western Mediterranean Basin
Research into the origins of food plants has led to the recognition that specific geographical regions around the world have been of particular importance to the development of agricultural crops. Yet the relative contributions of these different regions in the context of current food systems hav...
Khoury, Colin K.
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Achicanoy, Harold A.E.
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Bjorkman, Anne D.
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Navarro-Racines, Carlos E.
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Guarino, Luigi
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Flores Palacios, Ximena
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Engels, Johannes M.M.
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Wiersema, John H.
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Dempewolf, Hannes
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Sotelo, S.
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Castañeda-Álvarez, Nora P.
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Fowler, Cary
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Jarvis, Andy
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Rieseberg, Loren H.
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Struik, Paul C.
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[Data from: Origins of food crops connect countries worldwide]
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Data from: Origins of food crops connect countries worldwide