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

技术描述：这个美土合作研究项目涉及加州大学戴维斯分校的一名文化人类学家和博罗诺瓦埃格大学的一名农业经济学家，土耳其将对土耳其小麦的生物多样性进行全面研究。项目资金将使Ege大学的Emin Isikli博士能够参与对土耳其小麦种植者的调查，然后在加州大学戴维斯分校Stephen Brush博士的实验室花六个月的时间分析和解释调查数据。这个合作研究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制定鼓励多样性的政策，从而为未来保护多样化植物的遗传物质。这一生物多样性项目通过使美国和土耳其的顶尖专家能够将互补的人才结合在一起，并在彼此感兴趣和有能力的领域汇集研究资源，实现了促进科学知识的计划目标。

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.