Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Domesticated food crops are derived from a phylogenetically diverse assemblage of wild
ancestors through artificial selection for different traits. Our understanding of domestication …

The circulation of seed among farmers is central to agrobiodiversity conservation and
dynamics. Agrobiodiversity, the diversity of agricultural systems from genes to varieties and …

The rate of evolution of population mean fitness informs how selection acting in
contemporary populations can counteract environmental change and genetic degradation …

As habitat loss accelerates, there is pressing need to preserve plant genetic diversity in ex
situ conservation collections. Population structure (ie subdivision), which is common in …

Host–parasite coevolution can maintain high levels of genetic diversity in traits involved in
species interactions. In many systems, host traits exploited by parasites are constrained by …

Wild‐collected seed can no longer meet global demand in restoration. Dedicated Seed
Production Areas (SPA) for restoration are needed and these require application of …

Ensuring the availability of the broadest possible germplasm base for agriculture in the face
of increasingly uncertain and variable patterns of biotic and abiotic change is fundamental …

Restoration is normally conducted with the goal of creating plant populations that establish,
survive, successfully reproduce, contribute to ecosystem function and persist in the long …

Powdery mildew caused by the airborne ascomycete fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei
(Bgh) is one of most common diseases of barley (Hordeum vulgare). This, as with many …