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Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge: Potentials and Challenges

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Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge for Food Security

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Genetic resources and indigenous/traditional knowledge are the major resources on which human being has relied for their very livelihood and their demand will increase in the future due to increase in global population. The relation between plant genetic resources and traditional knowledge is of recent origin. Plant genetic resources are the heritable materials contained within and among plant species of present and potential value. On the other hand, traditional/indigenous knowledge is the outcome of intellectual practice in a traditional perspective. The genetic resources and indigenous knowledge protect biological resilience that exists in a natural way. The problems of food security are of global significance and are further compounded by precedential increase in world population resulting in over-exploitation of genetic resources and diversity. Nevertheless, these resources are lost at alarming rates due to anthropogenic effects such as climate change, pollution, genetic erosion, gross mismanagement of these resources and population growth. A vast amount of genetic resources are threatened and endangered, and some have even gone extinct due to genetic erosion and environmental changes. In order to meet current global challenges, it is obligatory for all nations and institutions to discover, collect and conserve potentially valuable plant genetic resource and traditional knowledge and utilise them sustainably.

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  1. School of Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Jammu, 180009, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Romesh Kumar Salgotra Ph.D.

  2. Division of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Chatha, Jammu, 180009, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Bharat Bhushan Gupta Ph.D.

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Salgotra, R.K., Gupta, B.B. (2015). Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge: Potentials and Challenges. In: Salgotra, R., Gupta, B. (eds) Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge for Food Security. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0060-7_1

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