Enhancing the use of crop genetic diversity to manage abiotic stress in agricultural production systems

IPGRI

Published in : 2006

Available in : English

There are still important unknowns concerning the diversity in local varieties managed by farmers subject to significant abiotic stress. These include:

• Whether within farmers' use of diversity for managing abiotic stress: Does the use of stress-tolerant germplasm 'cost' lower yield? In the stressed environment? In benign environments? In both?

• How different are the local crop varieties - phenotypically and genetically - with respect to resistance to the specific traits conferring stress tolerance or resistance?

• Do the tolerant or resistant populations have sufficient diversity with respect to other characteristics, thus helping farmers to exploit their potential to develop material with further desirable characteristics such as pest resistance, nutritional aspects, grain quality?

• Do farmers manage such materials in a specific way to prevent dilution of their stress-resistance characteristics, and does this limit adaptability?

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Originally posted at : Bioversity International - Publications

This resource is listed under:

Themes : Household Food Security and community nutrition, general, Nutrition and food systems, general, Biodiversity, Biodiversity, Food chain, food production and processing

Resource types : Meeting reports, Reports