Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

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: In this article, the degree to which countries use crops from regions of diversity other than their own (foreign crops) and quantify changes in this usage over the past 50 years was quantified.

TL;DR: The potential for pigeonpea CWR to be further employed in crop improvement is assessed by compiling wild species occurrence and ex situ conservation information, producing geographic distribution models for the species, identifying gaps in the comprehensiveness of current germplasm collections, and using ecogeographic information to identify CWR populations with the potential to contribute agronomic traits of priority to breeders.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a gap analysis indicator methodology that provides a pragmatic estimate of the comprehensiveness of conservation of the genetic diversity within useful wild plants, both ex situ and in situ.