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DTSTART:20100309T180500Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Why We Need to Conserve Crop Diversity and What We Need to Kno
 w-An Example from the Andes\, Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar\, Eve Em
 shwiller\, UW-Madison\, Dept of Botany
DESCRIPTION:Dr Emshwiller will provide an overview of the value of cro
 p genetic diversity and the kinds of information needed to conserve th
 e diversity of crop plants and their wild relatives. An ongoing projec
 t in the Andes Mountains provides an example of research designed to p
 rovide information for conservation. The tuber crop "oca\," Oxalis tub
 erosa\, is second to potatoes in the diet and farming systems of tradi
 tional agriculturists in rural highland communities of Peru and Bolivi
 a. The crop is a polyploid\, with eight sets of chromosomes. Dr. Emshw
 iller's research has focused on finding out which wild Oxalis species 
 may have hybridized to contribute oca's several genomes\, and studying
  how the exchange of planting material among farming families has affe
 cted the distributions of varieties of the crop.<br>
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1761
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