Michael Ambrose

Crop landrace conservation, status, challenges and motivations in Great Britain

Societal Impact Statement Recent agricultural intensification has led to the widespread replacement of genetically diverse crop landraces with high‐yielding but genetically uniform modern cultivars, reducing the adaptive resilience of farming systems. In the United Kingdom, where...

An inventory, threat and conservation assessment of UK wheat landrace diversity

Abstract In the early 20th century, agricultural production was mostly focused on traditional, low-input systems where seed was actively selected by farmers and then frequently saved on-farm for sowing in subsequent seasons. More recently, the replacement of diverse landraces (LR...