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

Latin America is the center of domestication and diversity of maize, the second most
cultivated crop worldwide. In this region, maize landraces are fundamental for food security …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the world's most important food crops, and is comprised largely
of japonica and indica subspecies. Here, we reconstruct the history of rice dispersal in Asia …

The term “landrace” has generally been defined as a cultivated, genetically heterogeneous
variety that has evolved in a certain ecogeographical area and is therefore adapted to the …

Modern agriculture and conventional breeding and the liberal use of high inputs has
resulted in the loss of genetic diversity and the stagnation of yields in cereals in less …

Landraces cultivated in centers of crop diversity result from past and contemporary patterns
of natural and farmer‐mediated evolutionary forces. Successful in situ conservation of crop …

Interspecific hybridization is widespread in nature, where it can lead to either the production
of new species or to the introgression of useful adaptive traits between species. In …

Agricultural intensification with modern plant breeding focuses on few high-yielding crops
and varieties. The loss of traditional crop species and variety diversity contributes to the …

Climate change will have numerous impacts on crop production worldwide necessitating a
broadening of the germplasm base required to source and incorporate novel traits. Major …

Cereal crops are significant contributors to global diets. As climate change disrupts weather
patterns and wreaks havoc on crops, the need for generating stress‐resilient, high‐yielding …