ReviewEvolutionary applications2017
In situ conservation-harnessing natural and human-derived evolutionary forces to ensure future crop adaptation.
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- Main Challenges and Actions Needed to Improve Conservation and Sustainable Use of Our Crop Wild Relatives.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- New Food Crop Domestication in the Age of Gene Editing: Genetic, Agronomic and Cultural Change Remain Co-evolutionarily Entangled.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
- Evolutionary and food supply implications of ongoing maize domestication by MexicanProceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- In situ conservation-harnessing natural and human-derived evolutionary forces to ensure future crop adaptation.Evolutionary applications · 2017Review
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Abstract
Ensuring the availability of the broadest possible germplasm base for agriculture in the face of increasingly uncertain and variable patterns of biotic and abiotic change is fundamental for the world's future food supply. While ex situ conservation plays a major role in the conservation and availability of crop germplasm, it may be insufficient to ensure this. In situ conservation aims to maintain target species and the collective genotypes they represent under evolution. A major rationale for this view is based on the likelihood that continued exposure to changing selective forces will generate and favor new genetic variation and an increased likelihood that rare alleles that may be of value to future agriculture are maintained. However, the evidence that underpins this key rationale remains fragmented and has not been examined systematically, thereby decreasing the perceived value and support for in situ conservation for agriculture and food systems and limiting the conservation options available. This study reviews evidence regarding the likelihood and rate of evolutionary change in both biotic and abiotic traits for crops and their wild relatives, placing these processes in a realistic context in which smallholder farming operates and crop wild relatives continue to exist. It identifies areas of research that would contribute to a deeper understanding of these processes as the basis for making them more useful for future crop adaptation.
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