Crop wild relatives native to the United States have proved useful as genetic resources in breeding more productive, nutritious, and resilient crops. Their utilization is expected to increase with better information about the species and improving breeding tools. But this utilization may be const...
Khoury, Colin K.
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Greene, Stephanie L.
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Williams, Karen A.
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Sosa, Chrystian C.
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Richards, Chris
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[Conservation Priorities for Tree Crop Wild Relatives in the United States]
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Conservation Priorities for Tree Crop Wild Relatives in the United States
The pages of this extensive book document the potential of a great many North American plants to enhance the productivity, sustainability, and nutritional quality of crops or to be further developed into important cultivated species in their own right. But this potential can only be realized if t...
Khoury, Colin K.
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Greene, Stephanie L.
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Williams, Karen A.
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Kantar, Michael B.
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Marek, Laura F.
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[Conservation and Use of the North American Plant Cornucopia: The Way Forward]
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Conservation and Use of the North American Plant Cornucopia: The Way Forward
North America harbors a rich native flora of crop wild relatives—the progenitors and closely related species of domesticated plants—as well as a range of culturally significant wild utilized plants. Despite their current and potential future value, they are rarely prioritized for conservation eff...
Khoury, Colin K.
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Greene, Stephanie L.
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Krishnan, Sarada
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Miller, Allison J.
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Moreau, Tara
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Williams, Karen A.
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Rodriguez-Bonilla, Lorraine
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Spurrier, Carol S.
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Zalapa, Juan
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Nabhan, Gary Paul
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[Toward Integrated Conservation of North America's Crop Wild Relatives]
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Toward Integrated Conservation of North America's Crop Wild Relatives