Relevant links for CWR practitioners
Below is a list of useful links to guide practitioners in the many processes and methodologies necessary to implement effective CWR action plans and strategies. To go to the website just click on the link title.
Atlas of the Crop Wild Relatives of Bolivia | The Atlas is the first attempt to gain a better understanding of the distribution of CWR in Bolivia. The Atlas sets out to study 2486 accessions present in Bolivian herbaria and germplasm collections, which represent 14 families, 18 genera and 161 CWR species. |
This Atlas presents the geographic distribution of 124 species found in 23 important crop wild relative genepools in Paraguay and contains a database of 2,287 individual occurrences of these species. | |
The AgroAtlas brings together information on the geographic distribution and biology of crop plants and their wild relative species. | |
The Atlas provides detailed information on 105 species or subspecies of wild Guatemalan plants that are related to crops, including their description, distribution, diversity and conservation status. The species are organized into genepools corresponding to the 29 crops that were chosen for this study because of their economic, cultural and biological importance. |
European Crop Wild Relative Diversity Assessment and Conservation Forum has developed an information management system, with standard descriptors and a management paradigm, specifically designed to facilitate CWR conservation and use. | |
IUCN's updated guide to conservation actions. Find latest tools on assessment and monitoring, policy, education and awareness raising. | |
CWR-AEGRO-PLIS allows you to search for occurrences of populations of Avena, Beta, Brassica and Prunus by taxonomy and geography. | |
A collection of the world's different areas of biodiversity importance. The website is created to provide concise and relevant information about key biodiversity areas like World Heritage Sites and Ramsar Sites. | |
Provides collectors (and other people interested in ex situ and in situ conservation of CWR) with up-to-date information on areas, traits and taxa that are still unrepresented among target CGIAR genebank collections. | |
A geographic online database covering almost all protected areas on the planet. | |
This website provides information on recommended locations, mainly in protected areas, suited for the establishment of genetic reserves for Avena, Beta, Brassica and Prunus targeted crop wild relative taxa across Europe | |
This is the web site of the Project: “Adapting agriculture to climate change: collecting, protecting and preparing crop wild relatives” which aims to collect the wild relatives of 26 key crops, conserve them in genebanks, and prepare them for use in plant breeding programmes in time to breed new crop varieties adapted to new climates. |
Features conservation procedures for genebanks and information on germplasm management strategies. Nine crops – banana, barley, cassava, chickpea, forage grasses and legumes, maize, rice, wheat – are already featured in detail. | |
Located within the Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement (ICCI) in Tel Aviv, the Harold and Adele Lieberman genebank stores the largest collection of wild relatives of wheat, barley and oat in Israel. | |
KOMUGI is a wheat database created in 1996. The database includes original accessions of Triticum and Aegilops collected in their places of origin, and a number of rye and oat accessions. It also contains the Catalogue of Gene Symbols for Wheat and gene sequence data. | |
The website and database provide species profiles for 102 important CWR species growing in Ireland. |
The CWR Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union (SSC/IUCN) - a network of crop wild relative experts dedicated to promote the conservation and use of CWR. | |
The AgriCultures Network promote sustainable family farming by the production of magazines and other media to build knowledge and exchange information. | |
This reasearch group focuses on analyzing genetic variation and adaptive traits in wild relatives, land races and modern varieties of crop plants, as well as developing strategies to utilize genetic variation in modern plant breeding programs. | |
The International Centre for Underutilised Crops (ICUC) - new and continuously updated information on underutilized crops and related issues. | |
UK Plant Science Community - a central resource for all those involved in Plant Science Research; scientific breakthroughs, latest funding opportunities and scientists working in any area of Plant Science. |
Provides information and photos of apple varieties. | |
A collection of wild beans held by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. It currently includes 1750 accessions representing 213 taxa of the Phaseoleae tribe. Phaseolus and Vigna are the most represented, but the the collection also includes material of 24 other genera, e.g. Centrosema, Lablab, Macroptilium, Macrotyloma. |
