Conservation of Tropical Plant Species
The richness of tropical plant diversity is widely recognized and the full range of this diversity is often not well appreciated. This wide diversity includes wild relatives of existing crops or landraces and also many neglected or underutilized species with potential as food sources, medicinal or o...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3776-5 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Tropical Biodiversity: Need for conservation
- Section I: Conservation
- Conservation of tropical plant genetic resources – In situ approach
- Collecting the wild relatives of crops in the tropics
- Seed banks for future generations
- Pollen cryobanking for tropical plant species
- In vitro genebanks for preserving tropical biodiversity
- Cryopreservation
- Biospecimen science for the In Vitro conservation of tropical plants
- Section II: Current status
- Conservation of Fruit Genetic Resources
- Conservation of orchids the gems of the tropics
- Conservation of oil palm and coconut genetic resources
- Current status of conserving tropical leguminous food crops
- Tropical and Subtropical Root and Tuber Crops
- Cereals
- Diversity & Conservation of Tropical Forestry Species in Southeast Asia
- The In Vitro Conservation of Plants Native to the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic Forests
- Ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources of major vegetables
- Spices and tree borne oil seed crops
- Conservation of medicinal plants in the tropics
- Section III: Future perspectives
- Global challenges for agricultural plant biodiversity and international collaboration
- Major research challenges+ Directions for future research.