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

Rice is among the 3 most important crops worldwide. While much of the world's rice harvest
is based on modern high-yield varieties, traditional varieties of rice grown by indigenous …

The conservation of crop genetic resources requires understanding the different variables—
cultural, social, and economic—that im**e on crop diversity. In small-scale farming …

Purple rice is a functional food with health benefits and industrial potentials. In northern
Thailand, purple rice landraces are grown either as wetland or upland rice, in the lowlands …

Abstract Luang Prabang Province is located within the area recognized as the center of rice
(Oryza sativa L.) diversity in Lao PDR. This study reported on grain quality characteristics of …

Traditional rice varieties grown by the farmers serve as valuable genetic resources for future
rice improvement. These varieties are highly adapted to varied agro-ecological conditions …

The Yi ethnic group in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province in Southwest China have
cultivated Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) for at least a thousand years. Tartary …

By structuring farmers' informal networks of seed exchange, kinship systems play a key role
in the dynamics of crop genetic diversity in smallholder farming systems. However, because …

The production, distribution and consumption of Thai rice is characterized by diversity at
many levels, from rice farmers with different access to resource endowment and modern …

Indian rice (Oryza sativa var. indica) is believed to have consisted of more than 100,000
landraces until the advent of the so-called Green Revolution in the 1960s, when most of the …