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Genetic diversity in British populations of Taxus baccata L.: Is the seedbank collection representative of the genetic variation in the wild?
Seed banking is an invaluable tool in plant conservation, both as an archive and a source of genetic variation. Despite the increasing focus on the validation of sampling strategies, few studies have empirically related diversity in seed bank collections with variation in wild-provenance populations. By using a set of nuclear...Gargiulo, Roberta ; Saubin, Méline ; Rizzuto, Gabriele ; West, Bede ; Fay, Michael …
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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... -
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Challenges for Ex Situ Conservation of Wild Bananas: Seeds Collected in Papua New Guinea Have Variable Levels of Desiccation Tolerance.
Ex situ seed conservation of banana crop wild relatives (Musa spp. L.), is constrained by critical knowledge gaps in their storage and germination behaviour. Additionally, challenges in collecting seeds from wild populations impact the quality of seed collections. It is, therefore, crucial to evaluate the viability of seeds from such... -
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Maximizing genetic representation in seed collections from populations of self and cross-pollinated banana wild relatives.
Kallow, Simon ; Panis, Bart ; Vu Dang, Toan ; Vu Dang, Tuong ; Paofa, Janet …
Genetic diversity, Seed bank, Musa, Conservation strategy, Sampling, and Crop wild relatives
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Genetic diversity and structure of Musa balbisiana populations in Vietnam and its implications for the conservation of banana crop wild relatives.
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are an indispensable source of alleles to improve desired traits in related crops. While knowledge on the genetic diversity of CWR can facilitate breeding and conservation strategies, it has poorly been assessed. Cultivated bananas are a major part of the diet and income of hundreds of...Mertens, Arne ; Bawin, Yves ; Vanden Abeele, Samuel ; Kallow, Simon ; Vu Dang, Toan …
Species diversity, Genetics, Heterozygosity, Phylogeography, Vietnam, China, Leaves, and Population genetics
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Regulation of seed germination by diurnally alternating temperatures in disturbance-adapted banana crop wild relatives (Musa acuminata).
Seed conservation of banana crop wild relatives (Musa L. spp.) is limited because of lack of knowledge about their germination ecology. Musa acuminata Colla, the most important banana crop wild relative, is distributed in tropical and subtropical Asian and Pacific rainforests and colonizes disturbed sites. The role of temperature in... -
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Filling the gaps in gene banks: Collecting, characterizing, and phenotyping wild banana relatives of Papua New Guinea.
Eyland, David ; Breton, Catherine ; Sardos, Julie ; Kallow, Simon ; Panis, Bart …
Bananas, Musa, Seed collecting, Crop wild relatives , Papua New Guinea, Phenotypes, and Gene banks
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Seed Banks as Incidental Fungi Banks: Fungal Endophyte Diversity in Stored Seeds of Banana Wild Relatives.
Hill, Rowena ; Llewellyn, Theo ; Downes, Elizabeth ; Oddy, Joseph ; MacIntosh, Catriona …
Endophytic fungi, Musa, Banana, Seed banking, Fusarium, Crop wild relatives, and Seed mycobiome