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The East Asiatic region of crop plant diversity

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Crop plant diversity of E Asiatic region (China, Japan and Korea Peninsula) is extremely interesting because of the region’s high level of plant diversity resources and long history of cultivation and domestication, while an inventory of crop plant diversity in this area is still not fully recorded. Crop diversity protects food consumption, especially in poor households within developing nations. This review aims to provide an inventory and a summary of the crop plants in this area, in order to further understand the importance of crop plant diversity and its conservation. In total 175 families, 640 genera and 1484 species were recorded in this paper based on extensive literature reviews and own field work.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31761143001, 31870316, 31161140345, 31400182), Minzu University of China (2015MDTD16C, YLDXXK201819), the Key Laboratory of Ethnomedicine (Minzu University of China) of Ministry of Education of China (KLEM-ZZ201806), and Ministry of Education of China and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China (B08044).

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  1. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, China

    Bo Liu, Sizhao Liu & Chunlin Long

  2. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

    Bo Liu

  3. Kassel University, 34109, Witzenhausen, Germany

    Karl Hammer

  4. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, China

    Chunlin Long

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Liu, B., Hammer, K., Liu, S. et al. The East Asiatic region of crop plant diversity. Genet Resour Crop Evol 66, 177–193 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-018-0704-8

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