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2023
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Indigenous crop diversity maintained despite the introduction of major global crops in an African centre of agrobiodiversity.
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2023
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Maintenance and expansion of genetic and trait variation following domestication in a clonal crop.
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2022
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Smallholder farmers expand production area of the perennial crop enset as a climate coping strategy in a drought‐prone indigenous agrisystem.
Chase, Rachel R. ; Büchi, Lucie ; Rodenburg, Jonne ; Roux, Nicolas ; Wendawek, Abebe …
Ensete ventricosum, Ethiopia, Food security, Smallholders, Drought tolerance, and Climate change
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2020
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Micronutrient composition and microbial community analysis across diverse landraces of the Ethiopian orphan crop enset
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is a major starch staple and food security crop for 20 million people. Despite substantial diversity in morphology, genetics, agronomy and utilization across its range, nutritional characteristics have only been reported in relatively few landraces. Here, we survey nutritional composition in 22 landraces from three enset growing...Tamrat, Solomon ; Borrell, James S. ; Biswas, Manosh K. ; Gashu, Dawd ; Wondimu, Tigist …
Ethiopia, Micronutrients, Ensete ventricosum, Fermentation, Food security, Free amino acids, and Kocho
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2019
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Potential adaptive strategies for 29 sub-Saharan crops under future climate change
Climate change is expected to severely impact cultivated plants and consequently human livelihoods, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Increasing agricultural plant diversity (agrobiodiversity) could overcome this global challenge given more information on the climatic tolerance of crops and their wild relatives. Using >200,000 worldwide occurrence records for 29 major crops... -
2019
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Enset in Ethiopia: a poorly characterized but resilient starch staple.
Enset (Ensete ventricosum, Musaceae) is an African crop that currently provides the staple food for approx. 20 million Ethiopians. Whilst wild enset grows over much of East and Southern Africa and the genus extends across Asia to China, it has only ever been domesticated in the Ethiopian Highlands. Here, smallholder...