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Case Study: Coffee Wild Species and Cultivars
Gayle Volk, Sarada Krishnan The purpose of this chapter is to provide information about domesticated Coffea and its crop …
Case Study: Sunflower Domestication and Breeding
Patrick Byrne, Laura Marek The purpose of this chapter is to explain the history of sunflower domestication …
The USDA Plant Introduction Program
Karen Williams, Gayle Volk The purpose of this chapter is to provide information about the history of …
Case Study: Wheat Domestication and Breeding
Patrick Byrne The purpose of this chapter is to explain how wheat originated in the Fertile Crescent …
From Wild Species to Landraces and Cultivars
Patrick Byrne, Christopher Richards, Gayle Volk The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the …
Introduction to Crop Wild Relatives
Gayle Volk, Colin Khoury, Stephanie Greene, Patrick Byrne The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that …
America’s seed bank: Our food supply’s last line of defense
CNN To protect our nation’s food supply against disease and drought, this seed bank stores billions of seeds and …
Bread Wheat x D Genome Diversity
Patrick Byrne Field video showing research plots of different D-genome wheat accessions that were crossed with an adapted wheat …
The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System – An Overview
USDA The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service operates a genebank network designed to protect crucial plant germplasm. This …