A5057913571- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Plant and fungal interactions
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Biochemical and Structural Characterization
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Forest Ecology and Conservation
- Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2011-2022
University of Oxford
2005-2012
Millennium Engineering and Integration (United States)
2011
Species radiations provide unique insights into evolutionary processes underlying species diversification and patterns of biodiversity. To compare plant over a similar time period to the recent cichlid fish radiations, which are an order magnitude faster than documented bird, arthropod, we focus on high-altitude flora Andes, is most species-rich any tropical mountains. Because uplift northern upland environments where much this rich endemic found have been available for colonization only...
The main objective of the"Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change" project is collect and protect the genetic diversity a portfolio plants with characteristics required for adapting world's most important food crops climate change. initiative also aims make available this in form that plant breeders can readily use produce varieties adapted new climatic conditions farmers, particularly developing world, are already encountering. Such adaptation key component securing future production. This...
Replicate radiations provide powerful comparative systems to address questions about the interplay between opportunity and innovation in driving episodes of diversification factors limiting their subsequent progression. However, such have been rarely documented at intercontinental scales. Here, we evaluate hypothesis multiple genus Lupinus (Leguminosae), which exhibits some highest known rates net plants. Given that incomplete taxon sampling, background extinction, lineage-specific variation...
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: The Andean highlands are a hotspot of domestication, yet our understanding the origins early agriculture remains fragmentary. Key questions where, when, how many times, and from what progenitors crops were domesticated remain unanswered. lupine crop tarwi ( Lupinus mutabilis ) is regionally important pulse with exceptionally high seed protein oil content focus modern breeding efforts, but its obscure. METHODS: A large genome‐wide DNA polymorphism data set was generated...
Plants are essential to human wellbeing, supporting important ecosystem services that critical components of Natural Capital. They supply food, medicine, fibre, fuel and building materials, provide a broad spectrum benefits society, offering vital solutions some the world’s major challenges, including bioenergy, animal health, nutrition, microbial resistance, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology. In 2016, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew published first State World's report, with key...
The Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project set out improve the diversity, quantity, and accessibility of germplasm collections crop wild relatives (CWR). Between 2013 2018, partners in 25 countries, heirs globetrotting legacy Nikolai Vavilov, undertook seed collecting expeditions targeting CWR 28 crops global significance for agriculture. Here, we describe implementation national programs present key results. A total 4587 unique samples from at least 355 taxa were collected,...
The Festuca alpina group includes several small fescues growing in rocky habitats across the European mountain chains. A taxonomic study of F. and alfrediana, two most common species this group, is presented here. Morphological data collected from 298 specimens 37 populations all major ranges, genetic inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) data, chromosome counts DNA ploidy information were analysed. We found that are differentiated by a combination morphological characters, which line with...
Summary Lupinus mutabilis Sweet is illustrated. The history of its cultivation and domestication described, nomenclature typification are discussed, a full description, two paintings, an illustration distribution map presented.