Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant taxa closely related to crops
and are a source of high genetic diversity that can help adapt crops to the impacts of global …

Simple Summary Aiming to cope with the provisions of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, EU
Biodiversity Strategy and EU Green Deal, we conducted the first nationwide …

Most conservation of biological diversity is achieved via networks of protected areas,
including national parks, wilderness areas, and nature reserves. Protected areas are chosen …

Abstract The Neotropical Region (NR) is one of the areas with the most plant diversity
globally, and its richness of vascular epiphyte (VE) species is higher than Africa and Asia …

Previous attempts to elucidate the drivers of speciation mechanisms and spatial distribution
patterns of biodiversity in mountain regions have treated different floras within a single …

The metric called phylogenetic diversity (PD) has been employed over the last 30 years to
add an evolutionary dimension to the exploration of biodiversity. However, the application of …

North America is a large continent with extensive climatic, geological, soil, and biological
diversity. As biota faces threat from habitat destruction and climate change, making a …

Separating centres of neo-and paleo-endemism on the clade level from the tree of life could
infer their evolutionary history and further pinpoint conservation priorities. Yet, centres of neo …

Despite the increasing use of protoplasts in plant biotechnology research, shoot
regeneration from protoplasts remains challenging. In this study, we investigated the factors …

Globodera presently contains 13 valid and three as yet undescribed species. Three species,
G. rostochiensis, G. pallida and G. ellingtonae, the potato cyst nematodes (PCN), cause …