Abstract An inventory of crop wild relatives (CWR) and harvested plants (WHP) occurring in Tunisia, based on the integration last available floristic checklists, is presented. The taxa were prioritised according to economic value related crop, potential for improvement, threat status, endemism, inclusion ITPGRFA (Annex I) average annual contributions dietary energy (kilocalories) per capita day...

Abstract Phylogenetic diversity (PD) is an important measure for identifying areas of conservation. a robust biodiversity metric because it accounts the relationships among species, and not just number species. For this reason, essential element conservation planning. Unfortunately, PD metrics are used by many In case Colombia, which rich in crop wild plant biodiversity, lacks information on ge...

Perennial crops are vital contributors to global food production and nutrition. However, the breeding of new perennial crops is an expensive and time-consuming process due to the large size and lengthy juvenile phase of many species. Genomics provides a valuable tool for improving the efficiency of breeding by allowing progeny possessing a trait of interest to be selected at the seed or seedlin...

Eggplant is the fifth most economically important solanaceous crop after potato, tomato, pepper, and tobacco. Apart from the well-known brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), two other under-utilized eggplant species, the scarlet eggplant (S. aethiopicum L.) and the gboma eggplant (S. macrocarpon L.) are also cultivated. The taxonomy and identification of eggplant wild relatives is challengin...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Transgene escape through gene flow from genetically modified (GM) crops to their wild relative species may potentially cause environmental biosafety problems. The aim of this study was to assess the extent of gene flow between cultivated rice and two of its close relatives under field conditions. METHODS Experiments were conducted at two sites in Korea and China to determi...

The Azerbaijan Republic considered being primary or secondary center of origin, domestication and diversity of many indigenous varieties of folk selection of fruit crops and their crop wild relatives (CWRs). The wild relatives of major fruits and nuts like grapevine, apple, pear, quince, medlar, pomegranate, fig, cherry, apricot, almond, hazelnut, walnut, chestnut, pistachio and others are pres...