BOLD Publications
Books and Book Sections
- An approach for in situ gap analysis and conservation planning on a global scale
 - Breeding climate-resilient bananas
 - Crop Wild Relatives: An Underutilized Genetic Resource for Improving Agricultural Productivity and Food Security
 - Ecuadorian Catalogue of Wild Species Related to Sweetpotato, Rice, Lima bean, Potato and Eggplant
 - Eggplant (Solanum melongena, Solanum melongena, S. aethiopicum and S. macrocarpon) Breeding
 - Genomic Designing of Climate-Smart Cereal Crops
 - Genomic Resources in the Eggplant Wild Genepool
 - Germplasm Characterization and Trait Discovery
 - Germplasm Collection, Genetic Resources, and Gene Pools in Alfalfa
 - Participatory plant breeding as a tool for implementing Farmers’ Rights and sustainable use under the Plant Treaty
 - Pepper and Eggplant Genetic Resources
 - Techniques and key issues in collecting crop wild relatives
 - The distributions and ex situ conservationof crop wild relatives: A global approach
 - Wild Lentils: Treasure of Novel Diversity
 
Conference Papers
- Born to be –introgressed with a– wild (eggplant)
 - Characterization under low N conditions of advanced backcrosses from eggplant (S. melongena) with introgressions from S. elaeagnifolium
 - Confirmacion de la presencia de Phaseolus microcarpus Mart. en Costa Rica
 - High-throughput phenotyping based on canopy reflectance and RGB-images for selecting drought tolerant alfalfa in rainfed Mediterranean environments
 - Integrating ecogeographic, bioclimatic and phylogenetic analyses for the wild relatives of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)
 - Introgression of alfalfa crop wild relatives for climate change adaptation
 - Pre-breeding efforts for widening the genetic base of cool-season food legumes
 - Pre-breeding for genetic enhancement of grain legumes
 
Documents
- Estimation of countries’ interdependence in plant genetic resources provisioning national food supplies and production systems
 - Manual on potato reproductive and cytological biology
 - Measuring the state of conservation of crop diversity: a baseline for marking progress toward biodiversity conservation and sustainable development goals
 - Monitoring and Evaluation Plan Multiplication of Crop Wild Relatives (CWR)
 - Obtención de híbridos interespecíficos de berenjena con especies silvestres relacionadas
 
Journal Articles
- A Case for Crop Wild Relative Preservation and Use in Potato
 - A deep learning-based system (Microscan) for the identification of pollen development stages and its application to obtaining doubled haploid lines in eggplant
 - A global resource for exploring and exploiting genetic variation in sorghum crop wild relatives
 - A prioritized crop wild relative inventory to help underpin global food security
 - A walk on the wild side
 - Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Global Initiative to Collect, Conserve, and Use Crop Wild Relatives
 - Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents
 - An Inventory of Crop Wild Relatives of the United States
 - Analysis of Amino Acid Composition and Six Native Alfalfa Cultivars
 - Assessment of Drought and Heat Tolerance of Durum Wheat Lines Derived from Interspecific Crosses Using Physiological Parameters and Stress Indices
 - Assessment of the potential of wild Ipomoea spp. for the improvement of drought tolerance in cultivated sweetpotato Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam
 - Broad near-infrared spectroscopy calibrations can predict the nutritional value of >100 forage species within the Australian feedbase
 - Capturing Wheat Phenotypes at the Genome Level
 - Challenges for ex situ conservation of wild bananas: Seeds collected in Papua New Guinea have variable levels of desiccation tolerance
 - Characterization and identification of annual wild Cicer species for seed protein and mineral concentrations for chickpea improvement
 - Characterization and pre-breeding of diverse alfalfa wild relatives originating from drought-stressed environments
 - Characterizing fruit ripening in plantain and Cavendish bananas: A proteomics approach
 - Coding SNPs analysis highlights genetic relationships and evolution pattern in eggplant complexes
 - Coleta de parientes silvestres de arroz.
 - Collecting of Crop Wild relatives and minor crops in Ghana
 - Comparative analysis of the responses to water stress in eggplant (Solanum melongena) cultivars
 - Comparative studies on the physiological and biochemical responses to salt stress of eggplant (Solanum melongena) and its rootstock S. torvum
 - Comparison of transcriptome-derived simple sequence repeat (SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for genetic fingerprinting, diversity evaluation, and establishment of relationships in eggplants
 - Crop Genomics Goes Beyond a Single Reference Genome
 - Crop Science special issue: Adapting agriculture to climate change: A walk on the wild side
 - Crop Wild Relatives Crosses: Multi-Location Assessment in Durum Wheat, Barley, and Lentil
 - Crop wild relatives in durum wheat breeding: Drift or thrift?
 - Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance
 - Current perspectives on introgression breeding in food legumes
 - Current Perspectives on Reducing the β-ODAP Content and Improving Potential Agronomic Traits in Grass Pea (Lathyrus sativus L.)
 - Development and GBS-genotyping of introgression lines (ILs) using two wild species of rice, O. meridionalis and O. rufipogon, in a common recurrent parent, O. sativa cv. Curinga
 - Development and Genetic Characterization of Advanced Backcross Materials and An Introgression Line Population of Solanum incanum in a S. melongena Background
 - Development of backcross generations and new interspecific hybrid combinations for introgression breeding in eggplant (Solanum melongena)
 - Development of High Yielding Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] Lines with Improved Quality Seeds through Mutation and Pedigree Selection Methods
 - Development of interspecific hybrids between a cultivated eggplant resistant to bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum) and eggplant wild relatives for the development of rootstocks
 - Diallel genetic analysis for multiple traits in eggplant and assessment of genetic distances for predicting hybrids performance
 - Distributions, ex situ conservation priorities, and genetic resource potential of crop wild relatives of sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., I. series Batatas]
 - Drought Tolerance Among Accessions of Eggplant and Related Species
 - Ecogeography and utility to plant breeding of the crop wild relatives of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)
 - Ecology and genomics of an important crop wild relative as a prelude to agricultural innovation
 - Effects of Chilling Stress on the Root Characteristics of 5 Alfalfa Varieties
 - Effects of heterogeneous root zone salinity on plant growth and ion characteristic in alfalfa.
 - Evaluation and Identification of Promising Introgression Lines Derived From Wild Cajanus Species for Broadening the Genetic Base of Cultivated Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]
 - Evaluation of a Set of Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum Accessions for β-Glucans and Microelement Contents
 - Evaluation of carrots (Daucus carota L.) germplams under drought stress.
 - Evaluation of Different Bacterial Wilt Resistant Eggplant Rootstocks for Grafting Tomato
 - Evaluation of durum wheat lines derived from interspecific crosses under drought and heat stress
 - Evaluation of Wild Lentil Species as Genetic Resources to Improve Drought Tolerance in Cultivated Lentil
 - Ex Situ Conservation Priorities for the Wild Relatives of Potato (Solanum L. Section Petota)
 - Exploring and Exploiting Pan-genomics for Crop Improvement
 - Extensive variation within the pan-genome of cultivated and wild sorghum
 - Fighting Climate Change? Ask the Extended Family for Advice
 - Filling the gaps in gene banks: Collecting, characterizing, and phenotyping wild banana relatives of Papua New Guinea
 - Finger Millet Production in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Problem Diagnosis, Key Challenges and Recommendations for Breeding
 - Finger Millet: A “Certain” Crop for an “Uncertain” Future and a Solution to Food Insecurity and Hidden Hunger under Stressful Environments
 - First successful backcrossing towards eggplant (Solanum melongena) of a New World species, the silverleaf nightshade (S. elaeagnifolium), and characterization of interspecific hybrids and backcrosses
 - Flowering and Growth Responses of Cultivated Lentil and Wild Lens Germplasm toward the Differences in Red to Far-Red Ratio and Photosynthetically Active Radiation
 - From bits to bites: Advancement of the Germinate platform to support prebreeding informatics for crop wild relatives
 - Fruit shape morphometric analysis and QTL detection in a set of eggplant introgression lines
 - Fully matured F1 Seed Formed in the Cross between Cultivated Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and the Tertiary Gene Pool Species, Cicer pinnatifidum without Embryo Rescue but Albinism Persists
 - Gene co-expression analysis reveals transcriptome divergence between wild and cultivated chickpea under drought stress
 - Genetic diversity, distribution and domestication history of the neglected GGAtAt genepool of wheat
 - Genetic erosion in domesticated barley and a hypothesis of a North African centre of diversity
 - Genetic parameters of drought tolerance for agromorphological traits in eggplant, wild relatives, and interspecific hybrids
 - Genome scans reveal candidate domestication and improvement genes in cultivated sunflower, as well as post-domestication introgression with wild relatives
 - Genome sequences of two diploid wild relatives of cultivated sweetpotato reveal targets for genetic improvement
 - Genome-wide genotyping-by-sequencing data provide a high-resolution view of wild Helianthus diversity, genetic structure, and interspecies gene flow
 - Genomic tools for the enhancement of vegetable crops: a case in eggplant
 - Genomics and biochemical analyses reveal a metabolon key to β-L-ODAP biosynthesis in Lathyrus sativus
 - Genotypic Variation in Cultivated and Wild Sorghum Genotypes in Response to Striga hermonthica Infestation
 - Genotyping-by-sequencing and multilocation evaluation of two interspecific backcross populations identify QTLs for yield-related traits in pigeonpea
 - Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives
 - Growth and antioxidant responses triggered by water stress in wild relatives of eggplant
 - Harnessing wild relatives of pearl millet for germplasm enhancement: Challenges and opportunities
 - High-throughput phenotyping reveals differential transpiration behaviour within the banana wild relatives highlighting diversity in drought tolerance
 - Improving seed germination of the eggplant rootstock Solanum torvum by testing multiple factors using an orthogonal array design
 - Interspecific Hybridization between Eggplant and Wild Relatives from Different Genepools
 - Introducing Beneficial Alleles from Plant Genetic Resources into the Wheat Germplasm
 - Introgressiomics: a new approach for using crop wild relatives in breeding for adaptation to climate change
 - Introgression breeding from crop wild relatives in eggplant landraces for adaptation to climate change
 - Introgression Breeding in Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.]
 - Lucerne and other perennial legumes provide new options for rain fed livestock production in the Mediterranean-climate region of Chile
 - Modeling of crop wild relative species identifies areas globally for in situ conservation
 - Navigating toward resilient and inclusive seed systems
 - Novel Grain Weight Loci Revealed in a Cross between Cultivated and Wild Sorghum
 - Novel sources of drought tolerance from landraces and wild sorghum relatives
 - Novel sources of resistance to blast disease in finger millet
 - Optimizing Seed Sample Size for Zinc and Iron Analysis of Wild and Cultivated Lentil
 - Origins of food crops connect countries worldwide
 - Participatory farmers-weighted selection (PWS) indices to raise adoption of durum cultivars
 - Participatory selection of CWR-derived salt-tolerant rice lines adapted to the coastal zone of the Mekong Delta
 - Past and Future Use of Wild Relatives in Crop Breeding
 - Performance of a set of eggplant (Solanum melongena) lines with introgressions from its wild relative <i>S. incanum</i> under open field and screenhouse conditions and detection of QTLs
 - Phaseolus angucianae (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae), a new bean species from Fila Cruces of southeastern Costa Rica
 - Phenolics content, fruit flesh colour and browning in cultivated eggplant, wild relatives and interspecific hybrids and implications for fruit quality breeding
 - Phenotypic Diversity and Productivity of Medicago sativa Subspecies from Drought-Prone Environments in Mediterranean Type Climates
 - Phenotypic response of farmer-selected CWR-derived rice lines to salt stress in the Mekong Delta
 - Phenotyping of Eggplant Wild Relatives and Interspecific Hybrids with Conventional and Phenomics Descriptors Provides Insight for Their Potential Utilization in Breeding
 - Photoperiod Insensitivity in Pigeonpea Introgression Lines Derived from Wild Cajanus Species
 - Phylogenetic relationship and screening of diverse germplam of carrot (Daucus carota) for drought resistance.
 - Physiological and biochemical responses to salt stress in cultivated eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) and in S. insanum L., a close wild relative
 - Plant Phenotyping Research Trends, a Science Mapping Approach
 - Population Dynamics Among six Major Groups of the Oryza rufipogon Species Complex, Wild Relative of Cultivated Asian Rice
 - Potato spindle tuber viroid detected in seed of uncultivated Solanum anguivi, S. coagulans and S. dasyphyllum collected from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda.
 - Potential adaptive strategies for 29 sub-Saharan crops under future climate change
 - Potential and limits of exploitation of crop wild relatives for pea, lentil, and chickpea improvement
 - Potential short-term memory induction as a promising method for increasing drought tolerance in sweetpotato crop wild relatives [Ipomoea series Batatas (Choisy) D. F. Austin]
 - Prebreeding Using Wild Species for Genetic Enhancement of Grain Legumes at ICRISAT
 - Productivity of the green mass of new alfalfa cultivars depending on the effect of macro- and microfertilizers on various phosphorous backgrounds
 - Proline content in leaves of eggplant, Solanum melongena: Analysis of genetic determinism and correlation with agro-morphological traits
 - Prospects of the use of wild relatives for pea breeding
 - Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops
 - Results of Selection Studies of Alfalfa Based on Inbred Lines
 - Review of congruence between global crop wild relative hotspots and centres of crop origin/diversity
 - Root Traits, Nodulation and Root Distribution in Soil for Five Wild Lentil Species and Lens culinaris (Medik.) Grown under Well-Watered Conditions
 - Root-Zone Bacterial Diversity in Field-Grown Individual Plants from Alfalfa Lines with Wild Relatives in Their Genetic Backgrounds
 - Safeguarding and using global banana diversity: a holistic approach
 - Screening Cultivated Eggplant and Wild Relatives for Resistance to Bacterial Wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum)
 - Screening cultivated eggplant and wild relatives for resistance to sweetpotato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) and to two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae)
 - Solanum insanum L. (subgenus Leptostemonum Bitter, Solanaceae), the neglected wild progenitor of eggplant (S. melongena L.): a review of taxonomy, characteristics and uses aimed at its enhancement for improved eggplant breeding
 - Sources of Resistance for Two-spotted Spider Mite (Tetranychus urticae) in Scarlet (Solanum aethiopicum L.) and Gboma (S. macrocarpon L.) Eggplant Germplasms
 - Status of the Ex Situ and In Situ Conservation of Brazilian Crop Wild Relatives of Rice, Potato, Sweet Potato, and Finger Millet: Filling the Gaps of Germplasm Collections
 - Tapping Pennisetum violaceum, a wild relative of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), for resistance to blast (caused by Magnaporthe grisea) and rust (caused by Puccinia substriata var. indica)
 - The effect of ploidy number on vigor, productivity, and potential adaptation to climate change in annual Medicago species
 - The Global Durum Wheat Panel (GDP): An international platform to identify and exchange beneficial alleles
 - The grain quality of wheat wild relatives in the evolutionary context
 - The horizontal gene transfer of Agrobacterium T-DNAs into the series Batatas (Genus Ipomoea) genome is not confined to hexaploid sweetpotato
 - The importance of the light spectrum in a high-throughput phenotyping lab concept: evaluating transpiration and biomass growth of different banana cultivars under different blue/red light ratios
 - The morphology indexes of different Alfalfa cultivars in Northwest of HeBei
 - The Use of Pentaploid Crosses for the Introgression of Amblyopyrum muticum and D-Genome Chromosome Segments Into Durum Wheat
 - Traits discovery in Hordeum vulgare sbsp. spontaneum accessions and in lines derived from interspecific crosses with wild Hordeum species for enhancing barley breeding efforts
 - Treasuring crop wild relative diversity: analysis of success from the seed collecting phase of the ‘Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change’ project
 - Unravelling the complex story of intergenomic recombination in ABB allotriploid bananas
 - Use of wild Pennisetum species for improving biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in pearl millet
 - Use of Wild Relatives and Closely Related Species to Adapt Common Bean to Climate Change
 - Using Growth and Transpiration Phenotyping Under Controlled Conditions to Select Water Efficient Banana Genotypes
 - Utilizing wild Cajanus platycarpus, a tertiary genepool species for enriching variability in the primary genepool for pigeonpea improvement
 - Variation for Heat Tolerance During Seed Germination in Diverse Carrot [Daucus carota (L.)] Germplasm
 - Variation for Salinity Tolerance During Seed Germination in Diverse Carrot [Daucus carota (L.)] Germplasm
 - Variation in total root length and root diameter of wild and cultivated lentil grown under drought and re-watered conditions
 - Water relations and use-efficiency, plant survival and productivity of nine alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.) cultivars in dryland Mediterranean conditions
 - Wide crosses of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) reveal good disease resistance, yield stability, and industrial quality across Mediterranean sites
 - Wild Lathyrus species as a great source of resistance for introgression into cultivated grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) against broomrape weeds (Orobanche crenata Forsk. and Orobanche foetida Poir.)
 - Wild carrot diversity for new sources of abiotic stress tolerance to strengthen vegetable breeding in Bangladesh and Pakistan
 - World Vegetable Center Eggplant Collection: Origin, Composition, Seed Dissemination and Utilization in Breeding
 
Thesis
- Assesing impacts of crop wild introgression in lentil using interspecific lens species recombinant in breed line populations.
 - Desarrollo de materiales de pre-mejora y herramientas biotecnológicas para la adaptación de la berenjena al cambio climático
 - Effects of Drought and Growth Media on Lentil Growth Characteristics
 - Genetics and Geno of Cultivated Eggplants and Wild Relatives
 - Genomics of sunflower improvement : from wild relatives to a global oil seed
 - Geographic analysis for supporting conservation strategies of crop wild relatives
 - Iron biofortification and fortification of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)
 - Modelamiento con el apoyo de Sistemas de Información Geográfico de los efectos de cambio climático sobre parientes silvestres de cultivos prioritarios para la alimentación y la agricultura: Estudio de caso fríjol común
 - Targeted Use of Crop Wild relatives for Improved Drought Tolerance in Sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.]
 - Tolerancia al estrés hídrico inducido por memoria en parientes silvestres de Camote [Ipomoea series Batatas (Choisy) D.F. Austin]
 - Zinc Biofortifications of Lentil