Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

The renewed focus on cereal landraces is a response to some negative consequences of
modern agriculture and conventional breeding which led to a reduction of genetic diversity …

The term “landrace” has generally been defined as a cultivated, genetically heterogeneous
variety that has evolved in a certain ecogeographical area and is therefore adapted to the …

The loss of variation in crops due to the modernization of agriculture has been described as
genetic erosion. The current paper discusses the different views that exist on the concept of …

Latin America is the center of domestication and diversity of maize, the second most
cultivated crop worldwide. In this region, maize landraces are fundamental for food security …

We carried out a simulation study to compare the efficiency of three alternative programs
(dfdist, detseld and bayescan) to detect loci under directional selection from genome‐wide …

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer,
and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding …

Together with the knowledge of the population structure, a critical aspect for the planning of
association and/or population genomics studies is the level of linkage disequilibrium (LD) …

The montane rainforests of SW Ethiopia are the primary centre of diversity of Coffea arabica
and the origin of all Arabica coffee cultivated worldwide. This wild gene pool is potentially …

Genomics-based, longitudinal comparisons between ex situ and in situ agrobiodiversity
conservation strategies can contribute to a better understanding of their underlying effects …