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

Many ecosystems around the world are rapidly deteriorating due to both local and global
pressures, and perhaps none so precipitously as coral reefs. Management of coral reefs …

Economically, legumes (Fabaceae) represent the second most important family of crop
plants after the grass family, Poaceae. Grain legumes account for 27% of world crop …

Crop diversity plays a central role in smallholder farmers' ability to cope with and adapt to
shocks. Shifting crop varieties and diversifying the crop portfolio are common risk reduction …

Genebanks play an important role in the long-term conservation of plant genetic resources
and are complementary to the conservation of diversity in farmers' fields and in nature. In this …

The resurrection approach of reviving ancestors from stored propagules and comparing
them with descendants under common conditions has emerged as a powerful method of …

The realized dangers of genetic erosion in plant genetic resources have prompted political
and scientific movements around the world to conserve plant genetic resources over the last …

In this paper, we review gene bank operations that have an influence on the global
conservation system, with the intention to identify critical aspects that should be improved for …

The lupins are an interesting group of legume crop species that produce large seeds
containing up to 40% protein. The genus Lupinus is part of the tribe Genisteae. More than …

The Arctic is warming–fast. Microbes in the Arctic play pivotal roles in feedbacks that magnify
the impacts of Arctic change. Understanding the genome evolution, diversity and dynamics …