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....