Despite their ambiguous historical record, conservation/development interventions the world over have remained a popular environmental governance tool. One of the latest global ‘trends’ are interventions to establish so-called ‘Transfrontier Conservation Areas’ (TFCAs): large contiguous spaces that are principally aimed at conserving biological diversity across national boundaries. In line with...

Global food security depends on the continual improvement of a relatively small number and feed crops. Today's supply is heavily dependent movement seed other forms plant germplasm for these crops across national regional borders. As occurred during Green Revolution, facilitated widespread exchange major critical security. Plant breeders, molecular biologists, agronomists, using scientifically ...

Macauba [Acrocomia aculeata (Jacq.) Lodd. ex Mart.], a palm tree native to Brazil, has high potential as an alternative source for vegetal oil production. It several applications in the cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food industries, production of biofuels. The conservation characterization its germplasm are essential progress genetic improvement. In this sense, study divergence was carried out...

Because of their adaptation to a diverse set of habitats and stresses, wild species of cultivated crops offer new sources of genetic diversity for germplasm improvement. Using an Infinium array representing a genome-wide set of 8303 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), phylogenetic relationships and allelic diversity were evaluated within a diversity panel of germplasm from Solanum sect. Pet...

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is among the most important grain legumes for human consumption worldwide. Portugal has a potentially promising common bean germplasm, resulting from more than five centuries of natural adaptation and farmers' selection. Nevertheless, limited characterization of this resource hampers its exploitation by breeding programs. To support a more efficient conservat...

Food security is a global concern amongst scientists, researchers and policy makers. No country is self-sufficient to address food security issues independently as almost all countries are inter-dependent for availability of plant genetic resources (PGR) in their national crop improvement programmes. Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR; in short CG) centres play an ...

The inherent ability of seeds (orthodox, intermediate, and recalcitrant vegetative propagules) to serve as carriers pests pathogens (hereafter referred pests) the risk transboundary spread along with seed movement present a high-risk factor for international germplasm distribution activities. Quarantine phytosanitary procedures have been established by many countries around world minimize seed-...