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2021
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Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank.
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2021
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Prioritising crop wild relatives to enhance agricultural resilience in sub‐Saharan Africa under climate change.
Satori, David ; Tovar, Carolina ; Faruk, Aisyah ; Hammond Hunt, Eleanor ; Muller, Gemma …
Food security , Conservation, Functional traits , Plant pre-breeding , Seed banks, and Nature-based solutions
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2021
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Exploring Effective Conservation of Charismatic Flora: Orchids in Armenia as a Case Study.
Plants are the bedrock of life on Earth but are increasingly threatened with extinction. The most cost-effective way of conserving plant diversity is through Protected Areas (PAs). However, the locality, size, and management of PAs are crucial for effectively maintaining diversity and have been criticized as currently inadequate. Using Armenia...Faruk, Aisyah ; Papikyan, Astghik ; Nersesyan, Anush
Species Distribution Models (SDMs), KBAs, Important plant areas, Caucasus, Biodiversity, QGIS, Exceptional species, Protected Area, and Endemics
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2022
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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents.
The Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project set out to improve the diversity, quantity, and accessibility of germplasm collections of crop wild relatives (CWR). Between 2013 and 2018, partners in 25 countries, heirs to the globetrotting legacy of Nikolai Vavilov, undertook seed collecting expeditions targeting CWR of 28 crops of... -
2022
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The re-emergence of Liberica coffee as a major crop plant.