Enhancing Crop Genepool Use: Capturing Wild Relative and Landrace Diversity for Crop Improvement - Hardcover

Nigel Maxted; Mohammad Dulloo; Brian Ford-Lloyd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780646135 ISBN 13: 9781780646138

Publisher: cabi, 2016

Synopsis

Based on the 2014 Enhanced Genepool Utilization Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement conference , in this book a team of international contributors address all aspects of utilization and conservation of crop wild relative (CWR) and landrace (LR) diversity for crop improvement. Focussing on characterisation techniques, conservation strategies, facilitating CWR and LR use and informatics development, Enhancing Crop Genepool Use highlights exotic plant germplasm as a potentially critical but neglected resource for crop improvement. Novel characterisation techniques and conservation strategies to identify and preserve CWR and LR traits to increase options for crop improvement as a means of underpinning food security in the face of climate change are demonstrated, and the current status and future enhanced utilization of CWR and LR diversity for improving agricultural production and sustaining the environment are explored.

About this title

About the Authors

Professor and Consultant in Plant Genetic Conservation. Research Interests: Plant conservation and broader biodiversity conservation and use, with specific expertise in: field conservation, taxonomy, ecogeography, GIS, population sampling, population management, reserve management, on-farm conservation, gene flow and genetic diversity studies of various plant groups. Work experience throughout Africa, the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and Europe.

Dr Dulloo is a Team Leader for a Bioversity International Initiative on Effective Genetic Resources Conservation and Use. Dr Dulloo is also co-Leader of the Genetic Diversity Cluster in the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas, as well as co-Chair of the Crop Wild Relative Specialist Group. He has been a Senior Policy Officer at the FAO. He was the lead author of the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report and, more recently, lead author of Chapter 2.2 Status and Trends - Nature in the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Report. He won the World Bank 2009 Development Marketplace Award on Climate Adaptation. Dr Dulloo has published widely on biodiversity and the conservation of genetic resources.

Edition details

• Publisher: cabi
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780646135
• ISBN 13: 9781780646138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 504