North American Crop Wild Relatives, Volume 1 Conservation Strategies /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Greene, Stephanie L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Williams, Karen A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Khoury, Colin K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kantar, Michael B. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Marek, Laura F. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Agriculture.; Plant breeding.; Plant ecology.; Nature conservation.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Ecology.; Nature Conservation.

The plant species that humans rely upon have an extended family of wild counterparts that are an important source of genetic diversity used to breed productive crops. These wild and weedy cousins are valuable as a resource for adapting our food, forage, industrial and other crops to climate change....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Securing economically important wild plant species in North America
• Sampling wild species to conserve genetic diversity
• Practicalities of collecting
• Challenges of storing seed of wild species
• Seed production in wild species
• In situ strategies to conserve genetic resources
• Canada
• USA
• Mexico
• Indigenous
• Forging partnerships
• Maize
• Beans
• Grain and cereal crops
• Leafy or stem vegetables
• Root, bulb or tuberous vegetables
• Fruit bearing vegetables
• Temperate small fruits
• Grape
• Temperate tree fruits
• Nut
• Tropical tree fruits
• Sunflower
• Industrial crops
• Forage and turf
• Revegetation species
• Herbaceous ornamentals
• Woody ornamentals
• Aromatics
• Medicinal.