Woody perennial plants make up nearly half of plant diversity and represent one‐third of the
world's major crop species, yet effective strategies to maintain and preserve these important …

Plants are essential sources of food, medicine, shelter, fuel, feed, and forage, and provide a
wide range of additional ecosystem and cultural services to humanity. In recognition of the …

Morphological identification of closely related rice species, particularly those in the Oryza AA
genome group, presents major challenges and often results in cases of misidentification …

Issue Lot accession information from natural history collections represents a potentially vital
source of large datasets to test biodiversity, biogeography and macroecology hypotheses …

Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives—wild species closely related to cultivated
plants—are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement, but gaps in knowledge …

The seed collecting phase of the 'Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change'project was, to the
best of our knowledge, the most comprehensive crop wild relatives (CWR) collecting and …

Spanish pear germplasm collections are crucial for preservation, research, and breeding
efforts. However, genetic diversity and structure is unknown at national level. A coordinated …

Many species are defined in the Musa section within its natural diversification area in
Southeast Asia. However, their actual number remains debated as botanical …

It is commonly recognised that natural history datasets contain locality errors that can
compromise the utility of those datasets. However, another source of error in these datasets …

Pumpkins and squash, Cucurbita species, are valued horticultural products almost
everywhere. They have been cultivated and subjected to consumer-oriented selection for …