Holly Vincent

TL;DR: It is concluded that a systematic effort is needed to improve the conservation and availability of crop wild relatives for use in plant breeding, using occurrence information collected from biodiversity, herbarium and gene bank databases.

TL;DR: The Harlan and de Wet inventory of globally important crop wild relative (CWR) taxa as discussed by the authors contains 1667 taxa, divided between 37 families, 108 genera, 1392 species and 299 sub-specific taxa.

TL;DR: This work applies species distribution modeling, climate change projections, and geographical analyses to 1261 CWR species from 167 major crop genepools to explore key geographical areas for CWR in situ conservation worldwide, identifying 150 sites where 65.7% of the C WR species identified can be conserved for future use.

TL;DR: The analysis concluded that a genetic reserve should be established in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, as this is the most species-rich area globally for Hordeum and further collecting missions are required worldwide where possible.