North American Crop Wild Relatives, Volume 1 Conservation Strategies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Greene, Stephanie L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Williams, Karen A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Khoury, Colin K. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kantar, Michael B. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Marek, Laura F. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: 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....

Table of Contents:

• 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.