Plant genetic resources (eBook, ePUB)

A review of current research and future needs
Redaktion: Dulloo, M. Ehsan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"It is likely that Plant genetic resources will become the essential methods manual to facilitate their international exchange and local dissemination. It may well become the standard reference for researchers at universities, institutes, government departments and plant nurseries for many years. It provides an indispensable contribution as a handbook for plant collectors."
(Plant Science Bulletin - Botanical Society of America)

Maintaining and benefitting from plant genetic diversity are key challenges facing agriculture. Challenges include a narrowing genetic base for many key crops, the loss of landraces and wild varieties with agricultural intensification and urbanisation, and the need to develop the role of existing gene banks from repository of genetic diversity to enablers of the flow of germplasm and genetic information for breeding more robust varieties.

Plant genetic resources: A review of current research and future needs surveys the wealth of research addressing these challenges and the opportunity for a more integrated, global approach to protecting and leveraging plant genetic diversity for a more sustainable agriculture. The book assesses ways of valuing and monitoring plant genetic diversity and discusses advances in in-situ and ex-situ strategies for conserving plant genetic diversity. The book concludes by reviewing ways of enhancing the use of plant genetic diversity, including participatory plant breeding programmes and more effective seed systems.

With its eminent editor and range of international expertise, Plant genetic resources: A review of current research and future needs will be a standard reference for university and other researchers studying crop genetic resources and breeding, staff managing genebanks and germplasm collections, government and other agencies regulating the collection, storage and exchange of germplasm, as well as companies involved in crop breeding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786764539
• Artikelnr.: 61315049

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Importance and value of conservation and use of plant genetic diversity 1.The importance of plant genetic diversity for food security and sustainable development: Chikelu Mba
FAO
Italy; 2.Valuing plant genetic diversity: Melinda Smale
Michigan State University
USA; 3.Identifying and monitoring plant genetic diversity: Ehsan Dulloo
Bioversity International
Italy 4.Improving the exchange of germplasm for crop breeding: Selim Louafi
CIRAD
France; Part 2 Protecting plant genetic diversity: in-situ and on-farm strategies 5.Key steps in preserving plant genetic diversity: an overview: Nigel Maxted
University of Birmingham
UK; 6.Key issues facing genebanks in preserving crop genetic diversity: Paula Bramel
Crop Trust
Germany; 7.Key issues and techniques in collecting crop wild relatives (CWR): Michael Way
Royal Botanic Gardens - Kew
UK; 8.New technologies to improve the ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources: Fiona R. Hay
Aarhus University
Denmark; and Sershen
University of the Western Cape & Institute of Natural Resources
South Africa; 9.The role of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in preserving crop genetic diversity: Asmund Asdal
Nordic Genetic Resource Center
Sweden; Part 3 Enhancing conservation and use of plant genetic diversity 10.Community-based conservation of crop genetic resources: Stef de Haan
International Potato Center (CIP)
Peru; 11.Participatory plant breeding programmes to optimise use of crop genetic resources: Margaret Smith
Cornell University
USA; 12.Developing effective seed systems to optimise use of crop genetic resources: Niels Louwaars
Plantum
The Netherlands; 13.DNA-based screening of germplasm: Jacqui Batley
University of Queensland
Australia;