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Crop Wild Relatives and Land Races: the Sky Islands of Southwest North American Agriculture Kates, Heather [1]. Filling in knowledge gaps to better conserve the rich flora of crop wild relatives in the Southwest: Examples in wild pumpkin (Cucurbita) and wild chile pepper (Capsicum). The Southwest is home to a wealth of crop wild relatives. Crop wild relatives are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement, and CWR of the southwest may provide particularly important agronomic and nutritional traits as plants in this region are adapted to drought and marginal soils. Despite the importance of the CWR of the Southwest, entire species are under threat due to climate change and habitat loss. To evaluate the potential uses and conservation needs of CWR of the Southwest, it is critical to fill persisting gaps in knowledge of the taxonomy, distributions, and characterization for traits of interest in these species. Here we review the current state of knowledge of the Southwest CWR flora and highlight efforts to fill gaps in this knowledge with examples from two genera with CWR species native to the Southwest: Wild pumpkin (Cucurbita) and wild chile pepper (Capsicum).
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1 - University Of Florida, Florida Museum Of Natural History, Dickinson Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
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Presentation Type: Symposium Presentation
Session: SYM4, Crop Wild Relatives and Land Races: the Sky Islands of Southwest North American Agriculture
Location: San Luis 1/Starr Pass
Date: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Time: 4:15 PM
Number: SYM4007
Abstract ID:1420
Candidate for Awards:None |
