CONSERVING PLANT GENETIC DIVERSITY IN PROTECTED AREAS Population Management of Crop Wild Relatives
This book is about the conservation of genetic diversity of wild plants in situ in
their natural surroundings, primarily in existing protected areas but also outside
conventional protected areas. A lot of effort has been dedicated to conserving plant
biodiversity, but most of this has focused on rare plant communities or individual
species threatened with extinction. Similarly, while much has been done to collect
and conserve crop genetic diversity ex situ in gene banks, very little consideration
has been given to conserving intraspecific genetic diversity in situ and in particular
while designing protected areas....