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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents
by Ruth J. Eastwood, Beri B. Tambam, Lawrence M. Aboagye, Zeynal I. Akparov, Sunday E. Aladele, Richard Allen, Ahmed Amri, Noelle L. Anglin, Rodolfo Araya, Griselda Arrieta-Espinoza, Aydin Asgerov, Khadijah Awang, Tesfaye Awas, Ana Maria Barata, Samuel Kwasi Boateng, Joana Magos Brehm, Joelle Breidy, Elinor Breman, Arturo Brenes Angulo, Marília L. Burle, Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez, Pedro Casimiro, Néstor F. Chaves, Adelaide S. Clemente, Christopher P. Cockel, Alexandra Davey, Lucía De la Rosa, Daniel G. Debouck, Hannes Dempewolf, Hiba Dokmak, David Ellis, Aisyah Faruk, Cátia Freitas, Sona Galstyan, Rosa M. García, Krishna H. Ghimire, Luigi Guarino, Ruth Harker, Roberta Hope, Alan W. Humphries, Nelissa Jamora, Shakeel Ahmad Jatoi, Manana Khutsishvili, David Kikodze, Angelos C. Kyratzis, Pedro León-Lobos, Udayangani Liu, Ram P. Mainali, Afig T. Mammadov, Norma C. Manrique-Carpintero, Daniele Manzella, Mohd Shukri Mat Ali, Marcelo B. Medeiros, María A. Mérida Guzmán, Tsira Mikatadze-Pantsulaia, El Tahir Ibrahim Mohamed, Álvaro Monteros-Altamirano, Aura Morales, Jonas V. Müller, John W. Mulumba, Anush Nersesyan, Humberto Nóbrega, Desterio O. Nyamongo, Matija Obreza, Anthony U. Okere, Simone Orsenigo, Fernando Ortega-Klose, Astghik Papikyan, Timothy R. Pearce, Miguel A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho, Jaime Prohens, Graziano Rossi, Alberto Salas, Deepa Singh Shrestha, Sadar Uddin Siddiqui, Paul P. Smith, Diego A. Sotomayor, Marcelo Tacán, César Tapia, Álvaro Toledo, Jane Toll, Dang Toan Vu, Tuong Dang Vu, Michael J. Way, Mariana Yazbek, Cinthya Zorrilla and Benjamin Kilianadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
Plants 2022, 11(14), 1840; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11141840 - 13 Jul 2022
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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 [...] Read more.
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 global significance for agriculture. Here, we describe the implementation of the 25 national collecting programs and present the key results. A total of 4587 unique seed samples from at least 355 CWR taxa were collected, conserved ex situ, safety duplicated in national and international genebanks, and made available through the Multilateral System (MLS) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty). Collections of CWR were made for all 28 targeted crops. Potato and eggplant were the most collected genepools, although the greatest number of primary genepool collections were made for rice. Overall, alfalfa, Bambara groundnut, grass pea and wheat were the genepools for which targets were best achieved. Several of the newly collected samples have already been used in pre-breeding programs to adapt crops to future challenges. Full article
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Root Traits and Phenotyping Strategies for Plant Improvement
by Ana Paez-Garcia, Christy M. Motes, Wolf-Rüdiger Scheible, Rujin Chen, Elison B. Blancaflor and Maria J. Monteros
Plants 2015, 4(2), 334-355; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants4020334 - 15 Jun 2015
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Roots are crucial for nutrient and water acquisition and can be targeted to enhance plant productivity under a broad range of growing conditions. A current challenge for plant breeding is the limited ability to phenotype and select for desirable root characteristics due to [...] Read more.
Roots are crucial for nutrient and water acquisition and can be targeted to enhance plant productivity under a broad range of growing conditions. A current challenge for plant breeding is the limited ability to phenotype and select for desirable root characteristics due to their underground location. Plant breeding efforts aimed at modifying root traits can result in novel, more stress-tolerant crops and increased yield by enhancing the capacity of the plant for soil exploration and, thus, water and nutrient acquisition. Available approaches for root phenotyping in laboratory, greenhouse and field encompass simple agar plates to labor-intensive root digging (i.e., shovelomics) and soil boring methods, the construction of underground root observation stations and sophisticated computer-assisted root imaging. Here, we summarize root architectural traits relevant to crop productivity, survey root phenotyping strategies and describe their advantages, limitations and practical value for crop and forage breeding programs. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plant Root Development)
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