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Crop wild relatives of the brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena): poorly represented in genebanks and many species at risk of extinction

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Crop wild relatives of the brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena): poorly represented in genebanks and many species at risk of extinction

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dc.contributor.author Syfert, M.M. es_ES
dc.contributor.author Castañeda-Álvarez, N.P. es_ES
dc.contributor.author Khoury, C.K. es_ES
dc.contributor.author Särkinen, T. es_ES
dc.contributor.author Sosa, C.C. es_ES
dc.contributor.author Achicanoy, H.A. es_ES
dc.contributor.author Bernau, V. es_ES
dc.contributor.author Prohens Tomás, Jaime es_ES
dc.contributor.author Daunay, Marie Christine es_ES
dc.contributor.author Knapp, Sandra es_ES
dc.date.accessioned 2017-12-21T08:05:40Z
dc.date.available 2017-12-21T08:05:40Z
dc.date.issued 2016 es_ES
dc.identifier.issn 0002-9122 es_ES
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10251/93225
dc.description.abstract [EN] Crop wild relatives (CWR) provide important traits for plant breeding, including pest, pathogen, and abiotic stress resistance. Therefore, their conservation and future availability are essential for food security. Despite this need, the world's genebanks are currently thought to conserve only a small fraction of the total diversity of CWR. METHODS: We define the eggplant genepool using the results of recent taxonomic and phylogenetic studies. We identify the gaps in germplasm accessions for eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) CWR by comparing georeferenced herbarium records and germplasm accessions using a gap analysis methodology implementing species distribution models (SDM). Preliminary conservation assessments using IUCN criteria were done for all species and were combined with the gap analysis to pinpoint where under-collected and threatened CWR species coincide with high human disturbance and occur outside of protected areas. KEY RESULTS: We show that many eggplant CWR are poorly represented in genebanks compared to their native ranges. Priority areas for future collecting are concentrated in Africa, especially along the Kenya-Tanzania border. Fourteen species of eggplant CWR are assessed as threatened or near-threatened; these are also concentrated in eastern Africa. CONCLUSIONS: The knowledge base upon which conservation of wild relative germplasm depends must take into account both taxonomic and phylogenetic advances. Beyond traditional research focus on close relatives of crops, we emphasize the benefits of defining a broad CWR genepool, and the importance of assessing threats to wild species when targeting localities for future collection of CWR to improve crop breeding in the face of environmental change. es_ES
dc.description.sponsorship The authors thank the managers curating Solanaceae in both herbaria and genebanks for contributing data for these analyses. Helpful comments by two anonymous reviewers greatly improved the manuscript. This work was undertaken as part of "Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Conserving, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives" (http://www.cwrdiversity.org/) supported by the Government of Norway and the Natural History Museum's Natural Resources Initiative. Taxonomic and systematic work on Solanum and eggplant CWR was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grant DEB-0316614 'PBI Solanum - a world treatment' to SK. MMS was funded by the Crop and Pest Wild Relatives project as part of the NHM Natural Resources Initiative. en_EN
dc.language Inglés es_ES
dc.publisher Botanical Society of America es_ES
dc.relation.ispartof American Journal of Botany es_ES
dc.rights Reserva de todos los derechos es_ES
dc.subject Agriculture es_ES
dc.subject Crop genepools es_ES
dc.subject Eggplant es_ES
dc.subject Food security es_ES
dc.subject Gap analysis es_ES
dc.subject Genebanks es_ES
dc.subject Red List assessments es_ES
dc.subject Solanaceae es_ES
dc.subject Solanum es_ES
dc.subject Species distribution modeling es_ES
dc.subject.classification GENETICA es_ES
dc.title Crop wild relatives of the brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena): poorly represented in genebanks and many species at risk of extinction es_ES
dc.type Artículo es_ES
dc.identifier.doi 10.3732/ajb.1500539 es_ES
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/NSF/Planetary Biodiversity Inventory program/DEB-0316614/US/PBI Solanum: A Worldwide Treatment/
dc.rights.accessRights Abierto es_ES
dc.contributor.affiliation Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Biotecnología - Departament de Biotecnologia es_ES
dc.description.bibliographicCitation Syfert, M.; Castañeda-Álvarez, N.; Khoury, C.; Särkinen, T.; Sosa, C.; Achicanoy, H.; Bernau, V.... (2016). Crop wild relatives of the brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena): poorly represented in genebanks and many species at risk of extinction. American Journal of Botany. 103(4):635-651. doi:10.3732/ajb.1500539 es_ES
dc.description.accrualMethod S es_ES
dc.relation.publisherversion https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1500539 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpinicio 635 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpfin 651 es_ES
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion es_ES
dc.description.volume 103 es_ES
dc.description.issue 4 es_ES
dc.relation.pasarela S\329572 es_ES
dc.contributor.funder Government of Norway
dc.contributor.funder Natural History Museum, Reino Unido
dc.contributor.funder National Science Foundation, EEUU


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