Enhancing Crop Genepool Use : Capturing Wild Relative and Landrace Diversity for Crop Improvement.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (625 pages)
Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Contributors -- 'ENHANCED GENEPOOL UTILIZATION - Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement' 16-20 June 2014 - Cambridge, UK -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Using Phenomics and Genomics to Unlock Landrace and Wild Relative Diversity for Crop Improvement -- 2 Pre-domesticating Wild Relatives as New Sources of Novel Genetic Diversity -- 3 Unravelling Quinoa Domestication with Wild Ancestors -- 4 Screening Wild Vigna Species and Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) Landraces for Sources of Resistance to Striga gesnerioides -- 5 Wild Lactuca saligna: A Rich Source of Variation for Lettuce Breeding -- 6 Capturing Wild Relative and Landrace Diversity for Crop Improvement Using a New Selection Tool to Exploit Genetic Resources in Durum Wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) -- 7 How the Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS) is Used to Mine Plant Genetic Resources Collections for Adaptive Traits -- 8 Predictive Characterization Methods for Accessing and Using CWR Diversity -- 9 Keeping a Finger on the Pulse: Monitoring the Use of CWR in Crop Improvement -- 10 Joining Up the Dots: A Systematic Perspective of Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use -- 11 Europe's Crop Wild Relative Diversity: From Conservation Planning to Conservation Action -- 12 An Approach for In Situ Gap Analysis and Conservation Planning on a Global Scale -- 13 The Distributions and Ex Situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives: A Global Approach -- 14 National Strategies for the Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives -- 15 Crop Wild Relatives: A Priority in Jordan? Developing a National Strategy for the Conservation of Plant Diversity in Jordan Using a Participatory Approach -- 16 Establishing Systematic Crop Wild Relative Conservation in the UK. 17 Optimized Site Selection for the In Situ Conservation of Forage CWR: A Combination of Community- and Genetic-level Perspectives -- 18 Developing a Crop Wild Relative Conservation Strategy for Finland -- 19 Developing a National Crop Wild Relative In Situ Conservation Strategy for Lithuania: Creation of a National CWR Inventory and its Prioritization -- 20 Priorities for the Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives at the Indian National Genebank -- 21 Strategies for Detecting Climate Adaptations in Wild Pearl Millet for Future Breeding Use -- 22 Assessment of the Conservation Status of Mesoamerican Crop Species and Their Wild Relatives in Light of Climate Change -- 23 Landrace Conservation of Maize in Mexico: an Evolutionary Breeding Interpretation -- 24 Use of Spontaneous Sexually Produced New Landraces of a Vegetatively Propagated Crop of the Andes (Oxalis tuberosa Mol.) to Enhance In Situ Conservation -- 25 A Long-term Systematic Monitoring Framework for On-farm Conserved Potato Landrace Diversity -- 26 A European In Situ (On-farm) Conservation and Management Strategy for Landraces -- 27 Using Landraces in Agriculture, Food and Cooking: Experiences Around a Large City in Southern Europe -- 28 Hungarian Strategies for the Conservation of Crop Wild Relative and Landrace Diversity -- 29 Assessment of Italian Landrace Density and Species Richness: Useful Criteria for Developing In Situ Conservation Strategies -- 30 Chickpea Wild Relatives and Landraces of Georgia -- 31 Landrace Inventories and Recommendations for In Situ Conservation in Finland -- 32 Community Biodiversity Management (CBM): A Participatory Methodology that Integrates Empowerment, Livelihoods and On-farm Management of Agrobiodiversity -- 33 Evolutionary Plant Breeding: A Method for Rapidly Increasing On-farm Biodiversity to Support Sustainable Livelihoods in an Era of Climate Change. 34 Value Chain Development: A Silver Bullet for Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Use? -- 35 Moving Slowly Towards the Light: A Review of Efforts to Create a Global System for PGRFA Over the Last Half-century -- 36 On the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources in Europe: A Stakeholder Analysis -- 37 Towards an Improved European Plant Germplasm System -- 38 Impact of the Genetic Resources Policy Landscape on Food Security: An Assessment of the Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights Programme -- 39 What Do We Have To Lose? Monitoring Crop Genetic Diversity -- 40 Improved Utilization of Crop Diversity for Rationalized Breeding Using Data Interoperability -- 41 Implementation of a PGR Global Documentation System in Portugal -- 42 The GRIN Taxonomy Crop Wild Relative Inventory -- Index -- Back Cover.
Based on the international conference 'Enhanced Genepool Utilization: Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement', this book addresses all aspects of utilization and conservation of crop wild relative (CWR) and landrace (LR) diversity for crop improvement.