Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P ^a,b   Khoury, Colin K ^a,c   Achicanoy, Harold A ^a   Bernau, Vivian ^a   Dempewolf, Hannes ^d   Eastwood, Ruth J ^e   Guarino, Luigi ^d   Harker, Ruth H ^e   Jarvis, Andy ^a,f   Maxted, Nigel ^b   Müller, Jonas V ^e   Ramirez Villegas, Julian ^a,f,g   Sosa, Chrystian C ^a   Struik, Paul C ^c   Vincent, Holly ^b   Toll, Jane ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST   (Germany)

^e ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^f Challenge Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security   (Colombia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONALITY;

EID: 84973404983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.22     Document Type: Article

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