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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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Maintenance and expansion of genetic and trait variation following domestication in a clonal crop.
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Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities.
Madagascar’s unique biota is heavily affected by human activity and is under intense threat. Here, we review the current state of knowledge on the conservation status of Madagascar’s terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity by presenting data and analyses on documented and predicted species-level conservation statuses, the most prevalent and relevant threats,... -
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Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use.
Madagascar’s biota is hyperdiverse and includes exceptional levels of endemicity. We review the current state of knowledge on Madagascar’s past and current terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity by compiling and presenting comprehensive data on species diversity, endemism, and rates of species description and human uses, in addition to presenting an updated... -
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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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Modelling potential range expansion of an underutilised food security crop in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Despite substantial growth in global agricultural production, food and nutritional insecurity is rising in Sub-Saharan Africa. Identification of underutilised indigenous crops with useful food security traits may provide part of the solution. Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is a perennial banana relative with cultivation restricted to southwestern Ethiopia, where high productivity and... -
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Uses and benefits of digital sequence information from plant genetic resources: Lessons learnt from botanical collections.
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