Enhancing Crop Genepool Use

Part I: Breeder's use of exotic germplasm
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

Part II: Improving access to PGRFA
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

Part III: CWR conservation
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 within the United Kingdom
17: Optimized site selection for the in situ conservation of forage CWRs: a combination of community and genetic level perspectives
18: Developing a crop wild relative conservation strategy for Finland
19: Developing national crop wild relative in situ conservation strategy for Lithuania: creation of national CWR inventory and its prioritization
20: Priorities for conservation of crop wild relatives at Indian National Genebank
21: Strategies for detecting climate adaptations in the 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

Part IV: LR conservation
23: Landrace conservation of maize in Mexico and evolutionary breeding
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 big 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

Part V: Community-based conservation and use
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?

Part VI: PGR conservation and use policy
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

Part VII: Conservation informatics
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

Nigel Maxted

Nigel Maxted teaches at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Mohammad E. Dulloo

Mohammad E. Dulloo is at FAO, Italy.

Brian V. Ford-Lloyd

Brian V. Ford-Lloyd is at the University of Birmingham, UK.