North American Crop Wild Relatives Volume 1 Conservation Strategies 1st edition by Stephanie Greene, Karen Williams, Colin Khoury, Michael Kantar, Laura Marek 3319951010 9783319951010

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ISBN-10 :  3319951010 

ISBN-13 :  9783319951010

Author:   Stephanie L. Greene, Karen A. Williams, Colin K. Khoury, Michael B. Kantar, Laura F. Marek 

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. Many wild plant species are also directly used, especially for revegetation, and as medicinal and ornamental plants. North America is rich in these wild plant genetic resources. This book is a valuable reference that describes the important crop wild relatives and wild utilized species found in Canada, the United States and Mexico.  The book highlights efforts taken by these countries to conserve and use wild resources and provides essential information on best practices for collecting and conserving them. Numerous maps using up-to-date information and methods illustrate the distribution of important species, and supplement detailed description on the potential value these resources have to agriculture, as well as their conservation statuses and needs. There is broad recognition of the urgent need to conserve plant diversity; however, a small fraction of wild species is distinguished by their potential to support agricultural production. Many of these species are common, even weedy, and are easily overshadowed by rare or endangered plants.  Nevertheless, because of their genetic proximity to agriculturally important crops or direct use, they deserve to be recognized, celebrated, conserved, and made available to support food and agricultural security. This comprehensive two-volume reference will be valuable for students and scientists interested in economic botany, and for practitioners at all levels tasked with conserving plant biodiversity. The chapters ‘Public Education and Outreach Opportunities for Crop Wild Relatives in North America’ and ‘Genetic Resources of Crop Wild Relatives – A Canadian Perspective’ are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

North American Crop Wild Relatives Volume 1 Conservation Strategies 1st Table of contents:

Part I. Conservation in North America
1. Wild Plant Genetic Resources in North America: An Overview
2. Genetic Resources of Crop Wild Relatives: A Canadian Perspective
3. Crop Wild Relatives in Mexico: An Overview of Richness, Importance, and Conservation Status
4. Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives in the USA
5. Working with Indigenous Communities: The Original Caretakers of Crops and Crop Wild Relatives
Part II. Conservation Strategies
6. The Gene Pool Concept Applied to Crop Wild Relatives: An Evolutionary Perspective
7. Conservation Status and Threat Assessments for North American Crop Wild Relatives
8. Sampling Wild Species to Conserve Genetic Diversity
9. Practicalities of Collecting Wild Plants in North America: Insights from the United States
10. Genebank Conservation of Germplasm Collected from Wild Species
11. Practical Considerations for Increasing Seed Samples of Wild Species
12. Public Education and Outreach Opportunities for Crop Wild Relatives in North America

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