Conservation Priorities for Tree Crop Wild Relatives in the United States

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cg.contributor.affiliationUnited States Department of Agricultureen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen_US
cg.coverage.countryUnited Statesen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2USen_US
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Americaen_US
cg.creator.identifierColin K. Khoury: 0000-0001-7893-5744en_US
cg.creator.identifierChrystian Sosa: 0000-0002-3734-3248en_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/55238en_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/55062en_US
cg.placeChicago, USAen_US
dc.contributor.authorKhoury, Colin K.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGreene, Stephanie L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Karen A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSosa, Chrystian C.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRichards, Chrisen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-10T19:24:08Zen_US
dc.date.available2017-10-10T19:24:08Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/88243en_US
dc.titleConservation Priorities for Tree Crop Wild Relatives in the United Statesen_US
dcterms.abstractCrop wild relatives native to the United States have proved useful as genetic resources in breeding more productive, nutritious, and resilient crops. Their utilization is expected to increase with better information about the species and improving breeding tools. But this utilization may be constrained by their limited representation in genebanks and the ongoing loss of wild populations to habitat modification, invasive species, pollution, over-collecting, and climate change. We report on a series of related initiatives contributing to conservation of crop wild relatives in the United States. An inventory of wild relatives has documented taxa related to a broad range of food, forage and feed, medicinal, ornamental, and industrial crops. Valuable species are threatened in the wild, and few accessions of these taxa are currently conserved ex situ. Potential distribution models based on historical occurrence information are clarifying where the species diversity of wild relatives is likely to be concentrated, and a gap analysis methodology is facilitating efforts to identify those taxa and geographic areas of particular conservation concern. A novel collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is making progress studying, collecting for genebank conservation, and protecting in situ a number of crop wild relative species. We discuss the value of broadening partnerships between agencies and aligning with ongoing regional and international initiatives to conserve, research, and utilize crop wild relative diversity.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKhoury, Colin K.; Greene, Stephanie L.; Williams, Karen A.; Sosa, Chrystian C.; Richards, Chris. 2017. Conservation Priorities for Tree Crop Wild Relatives in the United States . In: Sniezko RA., Man G, Hipkins V, Woeste K, Gwaze D, Kliejunas JT, McTeague BA (tech. cords.) Gene conservation of tree species–banking on the future. Proceedings of a workshop (16-19 May 2016, Chicago, Illinois, USA) 31-36 pen_US
dcterms.extent31-36 p.en_US
dcterms.issued2017en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.subjectplant genetic resourcesen_US
dcterms.subjectwild plantsen_US
dcterms.subjectresource conservationen_US
dcterms.subjectbreedingen_US
dcterms.subjectrecursos genéticos vegetalesen_US
dcterms.subjectplantas silvestresen_US
dcterms.subjectconservación de los recurosen_US
dcterms.subjectmejoraen_US
dcterms.typeConference Paperen_US

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