Conservation of coffee genetic resources: constraints and opportunities
Coffee is the world's most important beverage and upon which the economies of many developing countries depends. Although the coffee beverage comes from mainly two species namely Coffea arabica and C. canephora, there are more than 100 wild species, all endemic to the continent of Africa and the West Indian Ocean islands. This diversity represents a store of genetic materials on which the future of coffee improvement both in terms of yield and quality depends. The FAO, IBPGR and ORSTOM have collected much of this diversity and tried to secure them in field genebanks. However the management of these collections has proved to be difficult to maintain and these resources have not been adequately characterized, evaluated and used in coffee breeding programmes. In this paper we critically discuss the methodologies for both ex situ and in situ conservation of the coffee genetic resources with reference to case studies in Costa Rica, Ethiopia Madagascar and Kenya, discuss the value of these codllection for end users and describe the new advances made in the development of the conservation technologies for coffee germplasm.
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| Format: | biblioteca |
| Language: | spa |
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Trieste (Italia) ASIC
2001
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| Subjects: | COFFEA ARABICA, CONSERVACION DEL GERMOPLASMA, RECURSOS GENETICOS, GERMOPLASMA, COLECCIONES DE MATERIAL GENETICO, CONSERVACION DE LOS RECURSOS, CONGELACION, CONSERVACION BIOLOGICA, |
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| Summary: | Coffee is the world's most important beverage and upon which the economies of many developing countries depends. Although the coffee beverage comes from mainly two species namely Coffea arabica and C. canephora, there are more than 100 wild species, all endemic to the continent of Africa and the West Indian Ocean islands. This diversity represents a store of genetic materials on which the future of coffee improvement both in terms of yield and quality depends. The FAO, IBPGR and ORSTOM have collected much of this diversity and tried to secure them in field genebanks. However the management of these collections has proved to be difficult to maintain and these resources have not been adequately characterized, evaluated and used in coffee breeding programmes. In this paper we critically discuss the methodologies for both ex situ and in situ conservation of the coffee genetic resources with reference to case studies in Costa Rica, Ethiopia Madagascar and Kenya, discuss the value of these codllection for end users and describe the new advances made in the development of the conservation technologies for coffee germplasm. |
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