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A global perspective on crop wild relatives: distributions and
conservation ex situ
Project: “Adapting agriculture to climate change: collecting, protecting and preparing crop wild relatives”
ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meetings, November 6, 2013, Tampa (FL)
Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez, Colin K. Khoury, Chrystian C. Sosa, Harold A. Achicanoy, Vivian Bernau, Holly Vincent, Andy Jarvis, Paul C. Struik and
Nigel Maxted
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General outline
• Introduction– Definition of crop wild relatives– Uses of crop wild relatives– Pressures on crop wild relatives
• Methods and materials• Results and discussion• Future steps
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What is a Crop Wild Relative?
Wild plant species closely related to crops, including wild ancestors
Wild “cousins” of cultivated plants
Lactuca serriola. Image by: C. Khoury
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“Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) may serve as source of novel traits, as most of them have not experienced strong selective pressures and they share a common ancestry with crops, easing the use of their genes in traditional breeding and biotechnology when required” (Dale 1992).
Dale, P.J., 1992. Spread of Engineered Genes to Wild Relatives. Plant physiology, 100, pp.13-15.
Why Crop Wild Relatives
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Uses of CWR
Grassy stunt virus resistance from Oryza nivara in rice (Brar &Khush, 1997)
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Resistance to black Sigatoka and Fusarium wilt from Musa acuminata ssp. burmannica in banana (Escalant et al., 2002)
Image by: www.tropicos.org
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Uses of CWR
Aluminium tolerance from Oryza rufipogon in rice (Nguyen et al., 2003)
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Salinity tolerance from Solanum cheesmaniae in tomato (Chetelat, 1995)
Image by: TGRC
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Pressures on CWR
“Two thirds of the world’s plant species are in danger of extinction with pressure from the growing human population, habitat modification and deforestation, over-exploitation, spread of invasive alien species, pollution and the growing impacts of climate change”. (SCDB, 2009)
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2009). The Convention on Biological Diversity Plant Conservation Report: A Review of Progress in implementing the Global Strategy of Plant Conservation (GSPS). 48 pages
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Jarvis, a, Lane, a & Hijmans, R., 2008. The effect of climate change on crop wild relatives. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 126(1-2), pp.13-23. Available at: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167880908000133 [Accessed March 16, 2011].
Pressures on CWR: Climate change
• ~2055• Extinction predicted for 16-22% (110 species)• High habitat fragmentation
Scenario: unlimited migration
No. of species with area loss
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Materials and Methods
• ~5.000.000 records database– http://www.cwrdiversity.org/data-sources/
• 81 crop gene pools, 1187 taxa analyzed– http://www.cwrdiversity.org/checklist/ (Vincent et al., 2013)
• Environmental layers: Bioclim dataset (Hijmans et al., 2005)
• Spatial resolution: 2.5min (~5km at equator)
• Gap Analysis methodology (Ramírez-Villegas et al., 2010)
• Results evaluation with experts
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Materials and Methods
Sampling representativeness
Environmental coverage
Geographical extent
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Occurrence data
1187 taxa 370,777 georeferenced records
List of crops analyzed: http://goo.gl/Y19Oum
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Species distribution models (e.g.potato)
Map prepared by: Chrystian Sosa (CIAT, 2013)
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Species richness (e.g.potato)
No. of taxa
Map prepared by: Chrystian Sosa (CIAT, 2013)
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Species richness (81 gene pools)
Global distribution of the CWR of 81 crop gene pools
Map prepared by: Chrystian Sosa (CIAT, 2013)
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Establishing priorities for field collections
High priorit
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Mid priorit
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Species collecting gaps (e.g. potato)
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Genepool collecting gaps (e.g.potato)
No. of taxa
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Collecting hotspotsGlobal collecting hotspots for High Priority Taxa, for 76 crop gene pools
Map prepared by: Chrystian Sosa (CIAT, 2013)
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A global initiative on crop wild relatives
• Identify, collect, conserve, document use of key CWR for climate change adaptation (in developing countries)
• 10 years funding pledged by Norwegian government, starting 2011
• Target crops:
Avena sativa Oat Malus domestica Apple Secale cereale Rye
Cajanus cajan Pigeonpea Medicago sativa Alfalfa/Lucerne Solanum melongena Eggplant/Aubergine
Cicer arietinum Chickpea Musa acuminata Cavendish banana Solanum tuberosum Potato
Daucus carota Wild carrot Musa balbisiana Guangdong plantain Sorghum bicolor Sorghum
Eleusine coracana Finger millet Oryza glaberrima African rice Triticum aestivum Bread wheat
Helianthus annuus Sunflower Oryza sativa Rice Vicia faba Faba bean
Hordeum vulgare Barley Pennisetum glaucum Pearl millet Vicia sativa Common vetch
Ipomoea batatas Sweet potato Phaseolus lunatus Lima bean Vigna subterranea Bambara groundnut
Lathyrus sativus Grass pea/Common chickling Phaseolus vulgaris Garden bean Vigna unguiculata Cowpea
Lens culinaris Lentil Pisum sativum Garden pea
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Take home message
• Urgent conservation actions are needed for more than half of the CWR considered in the analysis
• Opportunities to piggyback on other conservation initiatives (especially for biodiversity hotspots such as: Mediterranean basin, South-Central China, Polynesia/Micronesia and Indonesia + Malaysia)
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¡Gracias!
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