A prioritized crop wild relative inventory to help underpin global food security
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...Conservation of CWRs in situ (Henry et al., 2010; Wambugu et al., 2013) can also be guided by analysis of the genomes of wild populations....
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...The collation of CWR taxa for over 173 crop gene pools into a checklist has been the first step undertaken by the project, through collaboration with the University of Birmingham, UK (Vincent et al. 2013)....
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...For various reasons, some national or local inventories are focused only on major crops (Berlingeri & Crespo, 2012; Khoury et al., 2013; Landucci et al., 2014; Maxted & Kell, 2009; Vincent et al., 2013)....
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...Global initiatives (Dempewolf et al., 2014; Vincent et al., 2013) have increased CWR conservation efforts and should be complemented by regional and national actions (Meilleur & Hodgkin, 2004)....
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...Furthermore, in the light of the potentially adverse impacts of climate change on agricultural production (Schmidhuber and Tubiello, 2007; Lobell et al., 2008; Palm et al., 2010), there is a rising awareness of the need to ensure global food security (IPCC, 2007; FAO, 2008)....
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...With a global estimated value of $115 billion annually for the introduction of new genes from CWR to crops (Pimentel et al., 1997), it might be expected that CWR would already be effectively conserved and readily available for use by breeders....
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