Cooperative Research (US-Turkey): Technology Adoption and Conservation of Biological Diversity

技术叙述： 这个美国-土耳其合作研究项目， 来自加州大学戴维斯分校的文化人类学家， 来自土耳其博罗诺瓦市埃格大学的农业经济学家 将提供一个生物多样性的全面研究， 小麦在土耳其 项目资金将使Emin Isikli博士 埃格大学参加了一项对麦农的调查， 土耳其，然后花六个月的时间在斯蒂芬博士的实验室 加州大学戴维斯分校的刷子分析和解释调查数据。 这 合作研究项目将研究农民如何使用不同的 小麦类型，将使用中的变化与社会经济和 环境变化，并建立保护程序， 保持现有的多样性。 这个项目很重要 因为了解农民为什么要保持不同的作物类型， 协助制定鼓励多样性的政策，从而， 为未来保存不同植物的遗传物质。 这个生物多样性项目实现了项目目标 推动科学知识的发展， 美国和土耳其将联合收割机互补的人才和 在共同感兴趣的领域集中研究资源， 能力。

Technical Narrative: This U.S.-Turkey collaborative research project involving a cultural anthropologist from University of California at Davis and an agricultural economist from Ege University in Boronova, Turkey will provide a comprehensive study of the biological diversity of wheat in Turkey. Project funding will enable Dr. Emin Isikli of Ege University to participate in a survey of wheat farmers in Turkey and then spend six months in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Brush at UC Davis analyzing and interpreting the survey data. This collaborative research project will study how farmers use different types of wheat, relate the variation in use to socioeconomic and environmental variation, and establish conservation procedures to maintain the diversity that exists. This project is important because understanding why farmers maintain diverse crop types will aid in designing policies to encourage diversity, thereby, conserving the genetic substance of diverse plants for the future. This project in biological diversity fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading experts in the United States and Turkey to combine complementary talents and pool research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence.