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New approaches for establishing conservation priorities for socio-economically important plant species
The establishment of priorities among species is a crucial step in any conservation strategy since financial resources are generally limited. Traditionally, priorities for conservation of plant species have be...
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Differentiation and distribution of indica and japonica rice varieties along the altitude gradients in Yunnan Province of China as revealed by InDel molecular markers
Indica–japonica variation represents the most significant genetic differentiation in Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L. subsp. indica Kato or subsp. japonica Kato). Understanding the differentiation and distr...
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Islands as refugia of Trifolium repens genetic diversity
Island populations are often thought to be more susceptible to the loss of genetic diversity as a consequence of limited population size and genetic drift, greater susceptibility to detrimental stochastic even...
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National inventories of crop wild relatives and wild harvested plants: case-study for Portugal
Crop wild relatives (CWR) and wild harvested plant species (WHP) constitute an important element of a nation’s plant genetic resources (PGR) available for utilisation. Although their natural populations are th...
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Open AccessCWRML: representing crop wild relative conservation and use data in XML
Crop wild relatives are wild species that are closely related to crops. They are valuable as potential gene donors for crop improvement and may help to ensure food security for the future. However, they are be...
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Towards a definition of a crop wild relative
Crop wild relatives are an important socio-economic resource that is currently being eroded or even extinguished through careless human activities. If the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the CBD 2010 Biodiv...
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Towards a definition of a crop wild relative
Crop wild relatives are an important socio-economic resource that is currently being eroded or even extinguished through careless human activities. If the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the CBD 2010 Biodiv...
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Agro-morphological characterisation of common vetch and its close relatives
The Vicia sativa aggregate, which includes the common vetch, is a complex of six closely related tax a which combines cultivated, weedy and wild forms. In this study 454 accessions with an emphasis on Mediterrane...
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Genetic basis for co-adaptive gene complexes in rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces
One hundred and twenty-two AFLP markers were mapped using an IR64 × Azucena rice doubled-haploid (DH) population. The distribution of these mapped markers was monitored across a set of 48 diverse landraces of ...
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Map** AFLP markers associated with subspecific differentiation of Oryza sativa (rice) and an investigation of segregation distortion
AFLP marker data were generated for a doubled haploid rice map** population developed from a cross between IR64 (indica) and Azucena (japonica) varieties, as well as for a diverse set of rice germplasm. A to...
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Complementary conservation strategies for the genus Coffea: A case study of Mascarene Coffea species
No single conservation technique can adequately conserve the full range of genetic diversity of a target species or genepool. To optimize the efficiency of germplasm conservation, a range of conservation techn...
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Population genetic structure in Lens taxa revealed by isozyme and RAPD analysis
An understanding of the genetic structure of populations is vital for the formation of optimum collection, conservation and utilization strategies for plant genetic resources. This is of particular importance ...
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Transgene risk is not too low to be tested
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Contrasting genetic variation amongst lentil landraces from different geographical origins
Lentil landraces from South Asia exhibit a low diversity and discordance with landraces from other countries according to a combination of qualitative and quantitative agromorphological characters. They exhibi...
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Identification of Taxa in the Genus shape Beta using ITS1 Sequence Information
Sequence variation in the ITS1 locus of the nuclear ribosomal DNA in beets has previously been used to reconstruct phylogeny of the species in the genus Beta. We have developed protocols that allow the identif...
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Genetic relationships within the genus Beta determined using both PCR-based marker and DNA sequencing techniques
The sequences of ITS1 of the internal transcribed spacer regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA from 11 species or subspecies in four sections of the genus Beta were compared. Phylogeny of these wild beet taxa was infe...
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Contrasting genetic diversity relationships are revealed in rice (Oryza sativa L.) using different marker types
Genetic variation between samples of Oryza sativa from 19 localities in Bangladesh and Bhutan was assessed using two PCR-based molecular marker systems: RAPD (random amplification of polymorphic DNA) and ISSR-...
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Predicting quantitative variation within rice germplasm using molecular markers
Diverse Asian rice (Oryza sativa) germplasm has been used to identify associations between various quantitative traits and RAPD molecular markers using multiple regression analysis. This has allowed us to predict...
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Use of RAPD for the study of diversity within plant germplasm collections
As part of the development of a molecular toolkit for the study of diversity within large plant germplasm collections, RAPD technology has been applied to accessions of rice (Oryza sativa) obtained from the major...
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In vitro adventitious root induction in Antirrhinum majus L.
A broadly applicable method for the successful induction of root systems in a number of cultivars of A. majus has been determined. This involves a double filter-paper bridge with a liquid medium for root inductio...
