Collection
Orphan Crops
In this issue, orphan crops from different crop types are represented. Orphan crops are crops with little significance at the global scale but they play a vital role in the food and nutrition security as well as the livelihood of resource-poor farmers and consumers in the developing world. The term ‘orphan’ refers to the neglect of the crop by the international research community. In general, papers in this issue provide information related to the improvement of diverse orphan crops. Advances on these largely neglected crops have been made using very limited resources but dedicated researchers and institutions have made very respectable progress.
Editors
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Zerihun Tadele
Prof. Tadele is a Group Leader at the Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern and Affiliated Scientist of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. He received his PhD from the University of Basel. He is interested to contribute to global food security through improving productivity of tef (Eragrostis tef), an indigenous cereal from the Horn of Africa annually cultivated on over three million ha of land. Using genetics/genomics, his group focuses on tackling major yield limiting factors in tef. He closely works with the Ethiopian Agricultural Research System in developing and disseminating improved tef varieties to farmers.
Articles (21 in this collection)
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Bambara groundnut: an exemplar underutilised legume for resilience under climate change
Authors (first, second and last of 19)
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Crops For the Future (CFF): an overview of research efforts in the adoption of underutilised species
Authors (first, second and last of 11)
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Metabolite signatures of grasspea suspension-cultured cells illustrate the complexity of dehydration response
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
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Rice bean: a lesser known pulse with well-recognized potential
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
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Ancient orphan legume horse gram: a potential food and forage crop of future
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
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African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC): status of developing genomic resources for African orphan crops
Authors (first, second and last of 25)
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The potential of neglected and underutilized species for improving diets and nutrition
Authors (first, second and last of 18)
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Phenomics and genomics of finger millet: current status and future prospects
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Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) for food and nutritional security: synthesis of past research and future direction
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
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Association between vitamin content, plant morphology and geographical origin in a worldwide collection of the orphan crop Gynandropsis gynandra (Cleomaceae)
Authors (first, second and last of 8)
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Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.): orphan crop, nutraceutical or just plain food?
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
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Transcriptome profiling illustrates expression signatures of dehydration tolerance in developing grasspea seedlings
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Revisiting the versatile buckwheat: reinvigorating genetic gains through integrated breeding and genomics approach
Authors (first, second and last of 10)
