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Atlas of Guatemalan Crop Wild Relatives
An interactive online reference for genetic resources conservation and use
This new atlas will facilitate the conservation and use of wild plant species that are related to cultivated crops.
The Atlas of Guatemalan Crop Wild Relatives (Atlas Guatemalteco de Parientes Silvestres de las Plantas Cultivadas) is a unique new web resource designed to facilitate the conservation and use of wild plant species that are related to cultivated crops.
Guatemala is located in the heart of Mesoamerica, one of the world’s most important centers of plant domestication and agricultural origins, and consequently, an area with an abundance of crop wild relatives.
Crop wild relatives are increasingly important to world agriculture because they contain beneficial traits needed for breeding improved crop varieties that are hardier, more productive, more nutritious, more disease and drought resistant, and better adapted to the stresses of climate change.
The atlas is the product of nearly a decade of extensive collaboration between the United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Bioversity International, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, and the Agronomy Faculty, University of San Carlos in Guatemala.
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