TY - JOUR
T1 - Indigenous knowledge and traditional conservation of hulless barley (Hordeum vulgare) germplasm resources in the Tibetan communities of Shangrndigenous knowledge and traditional conservation of hulless barley (Hordeum vulgare) germplasm resources in the Tibetan communities of Shangri-la, Yunnan, SW China
AU - Li, Yali
AU - Long, Chunlin
AU - Kato, Kenji
AU - Yang, Chunyan
AU - Sato, Kazuhiro
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Acknowledgments We thank the Agricultural Science Institute of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture for providing some seed samples of hulless barley. We are grateful to Y. T. Liu, Y. Wang, Y. C. Liu, and Y. N. Shi for helping field surveys and material collections. We sincerely thank Selena Ahmed, an American PhD candidate from the New York Botanical Garden, for revising and editing the English. The authors are also grateful to Dr. Devra Jarvis from the Bioversity International for her helpful discussion. This work was supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF, 7801FD-E01001), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS/AP/109080), the Ministry of Education of China (B08044 and MUC 985), the Ministry of Science & Technology of China (2008FY110400-2-2 and 2005DKA210006), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-Z-0925 and O92441112F).
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - Hulless barley (Hordeum vulgare L. s. l.) is the staple food crop of Tibetan communities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, covering Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China. Participatory Rural Appraisal methodolgies were employed in twenty-seven villages that were randomly selected in Shangri-la region, or Diqing Prefecture of Yunnan Province to document the ethnobotanical and indigenous knowledge related to the production, diversity, use and conservation of hulless barley. For Tibetans in Shangri-la, the crop has a high socio-cultural value. The genetic diversity of landraces managed by the farmers in Shangri-la is an extremely important germplasm resource. We recorded a total of 54 landraces that are primarily described by farmers based on their cooking quality, growth cycle, color and size of the grains. The ethnobotanical and indigenous knowledge recorded in this study contributes to the understanding of the genetic diversity of hulless barley in Shangri-la and even in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and in defining appropriate strategies for its conservation on farm.
AB - Hulless barley (Hordeum vulgare L. s. l.) is the staple food crop of Tibetan communities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, covering Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China. Participatory Rural Appraisal methodolgies were employed in twenty-seven villages that were randomly selected in Shangri-la region, or Diqing Prefecture of Yunnan Province to document the ethnobotanical and indigenous knowledge related to the production, diversity, use and conservation of hulless barley. For Tibetans in Shangri-la, the crop has a high socio-cultural value. The genetic diversity of landraces managed by the farmers in Shangri-la is an extremely important germplasm resource. We recorded a total of 54 landraces that are primarily described by farmers based on their cooking quality, growth cycle, color and size of the grains. The ethnobotanical and indigenous knowledge recorded in this study contributes to the understanding of the genetic diversity of hulless barley in Shangri-la and even in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and in defining appropriate strategies for its conservation on farm.
KW - Ethnobotany
KW - Genetic resources management
KW - Hordeum vulgare
KW - Hulless barley
KW - Shangri-la
KW - Tibetan communities
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U2 - 10.1007/s10722-010-9604-2
DO - 10.1007/s10722-010-9604-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79959772348
VL - 58
SP - 645
EP - 655
JO - Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
JF - Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
SN - 0925-9864
IS - 5
ER -