CRB: Enthnobiology and Ecology of Wheat Landrace Conservation in Central Turkey

这一奖项授予一名文化人类学家和一名遗传学家，将使人们能够对土耳其小麦的生物多样性进行全面研究。证据表明，小麦是在土耳其驯化的，在那里已经种植了8000多年。目前正在种植的小麦种类中存在着巨大的生物多样性，尽管适应高产生产方法的新品种的引入正在威胁着这一生物信息库。该项目将研究农民如何使用不同类型的小麦，将使用的变化与社会经济和环境变化联系起来，并建立保护程序以保持现有的多样性。这项研究将利用1948年绿色革命之前收集的小麦类型的全面收集。这个项目很重要，因为了解农民为什么保持多样化的作物类型将有助于我们设计鼓励多样性的政策；保护多样化植物的遗传物质将为未来提供宝贵的遗产。

This award to a cultural anthropologist and a geneticist will allow a comprehensive study of the biological diversity of wheat in Turkey. The evidence suggests that wheat was domesticated in Turkey and has been grown there for over 8,000 years. There is an enormous wealth of biological diversity in the types of wheat now being grown, although the introduction of new varieties that are fitted to high yielding production methods is threatening that storehouse of biological information. This project will study how farmers use different types of wheat, relate the variation in use to socio-economic and environmental variation, and set up conservation procedures to maintain the diversity that exists. The research will draw upon a comprehensive collection of wheat types collected in 1948, before the green revolution. This project is important because understanding why farmers maintain diverse crop types will help us design policies to encourage diversity; and conserving the genetic substance of diverse plants will provide a valuable heritage for the future.