Aim Crop wild relatives (CWR) are an essential source of genetic material for the improvement certain traits in related crop species. Despite their importance, increasing public, scientific and political support, large gaps exist amount collected conserved many CWR. Here, we construct a dataset on distribution banana species (Musa spp.) assess risk conservation status. We deal with following qu...

BACKGROUND Rice is a major source of human food with a predominantly Asian production base. Domestication involved selection of traits that are desirable for agriculture and to human consumers. Wild relatives of crop plants are a source of useful variation which is of immense value for crop improvement. Australian wild rices have been isolated from the impacts of domestication in Asia and repre...