Title: A Concept of Wild Flora and Biodiversity Based on Tree Resource Domestication in Agriculture
Abstract: Tree Resource Domestication (TRD) is an influential process in the development of a tree crop and its large scale cultivation. But TRD have a minimal impact on the meaning of concepts such as wild flora and biodiversity as they are popular with conservation interests and Natural Resource Management. Tree Resource Domestication (TRD) as a development process of tree crops involves the relocation of valued parts of a tree or whole seedlings from forest to artificial environments, the adaptation of successive generations of relocated trees to human-controlled environments and the selection of desired production traits in plantation-grown populations of trees. A close association exist between TRD and tree species of wild origin, established populations of cultivated trees as well as their cultivars/clones. These relationships were explored so that the unique experiences of TRD in agriculture would be reflected in concepts that are closely associated with the domestication process. The derivatives are more specific concepts of wild flora, tree crop diversity and biodiversity.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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