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Ruth H. Harker
Researcher at Royal Botanic Gardens
Publications - 2
Citations - 398
Ruth H. Harker is an academic researcher from Royal Botanic Gardens. The author has contributed to research in topics: Germplasm & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 290 citations.
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Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives
Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez,Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez,Colin K. Khoury,Colin K. Khoury,Harold A. Achicanoy,Vivian Bernau,Hannes Dempewolf,Ruth J. Eastwood,Luigi Guarino,Ruth H. Harker,Andy Jarvis,Andy Jarvis,Nigel Maxted,Jonas V. Müller,Julian Ramirez-Villegas,Julian Ramirez-Villegas,Julian Ramirez-Villegas,Chrystian C. Sosa,Paul C. Struik,Holly Vincent,Jane Toll +20 more
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.
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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents
Ruth J. Eastwood,B.B. Tambam,L. M. Aboagye,Zeynal Akparov,Sunday E. Aladele,Richard G. Allen,Ahmed Amri,Noelle L. Anglin,Rodolfo Araya,Griselda Arrieta-Espinoza,Aydin Asgerov,Khadijah Awang,Tesfaye Awas,Ana Maria Barata,Samuel Kwasi Boateng,Joana Magos Brehm,Joëlle Breidy,Elinor Breman,Arturo Brenes Angulo,Marília Lobo Burle,Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez,P. Cortesão Casimiro,Néstor Felipe Chaves,Aline da Consolação Sampaio Clemente,Chris Cockel,Alex Davey,Lucía De la Rosa,Daniel G. Debouck,Hannes Dempewolf,Hiba Dokmak,David Ellis,Aisyah Faruk,Cátia José Abreu Freitas,S. Galstyan,Rosa M. García,Krishna Hari Ghimire,Luigi Guarino,Ruth H. Harker,Rob Hope,Alan Humphries,Nelissa Jamora,Shakeel Ahmad Jatoi,Manana Khutsishvili,David Kikodze,Angelos C. Kyratzis,Pedro León-Lobos,Udayangani Liu,Ramesh Mainali,A. T. Mammadov,Norma C. Manrique-Carpintero,Daniele Manzella,Mohd Shukri Mat Ali,Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros,María de los Angeles Mérida Guzman,Tsira Mikatadze-Pantsulaia,El Tahir I. Mohamed,A. R. Monteros-Altamirano,A. Jason Morales,Jonas V. Müller,J.W. Mulumba,A. B. Nersesyan,Humberto Nóbrega,Desterio Ondieki Nyamongo,M. Obreza,Anthony U. Okere,Simone Orsenigo,Fernando Ortega-Klose,A. S. Papikyan,Timothy R. Pearce,M. A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho,Jaime Prohens,Graziano Rossi,Alberto Salas,Deepa Singh Shrestha,Sadar Uddin Siddiqui,Paul Smith,Diego A. Sotomayor,Marcelo Tacán,César Tapia,Álvaro Toledo,Jane Toll,Dang Toan Vu,T.-D. Vu,M. J. Way,Mariana Yazbek,Cinthya Zorrilla,Benjamin Kilian +86 more
TL;DR: The Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project set out to improve the diversity, quantity, and accessibility of germplasm collections of crop wild relatives (CWR) between 2013 and 2018, partners in 25 countries, heirs to the globetrotting legacy of Nikolai Vavilov, undertook seed collecting expeditions targeting CWR of 28 crops of global significance for agriculture as discussed by the authors .