Diversity and Geography of Cultivated Plants

Karl Hammer, Prof. Dr., was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1944. He was head of the Gatersleben genebank (Germany). Later on, he took over the chair of Agrobiodiversity (retired) and was Director of the Tropical Greenhouse in Witzenhausen. His fields of expertise include taxonomy of cultivated plants and plant genetic resources research. Dr. Hammer authored or co-authored approximately 600 journal papers and 50 books. He was actively engaged in more than 70 missions for investigating and collecting cultivated plants and their wild relatives in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. For several years he was head of the section of plant genetic resources (EUCARPIA). In 1986 he joined the editorial board of Euphytica (International Journal of Plant Breeding). He served on the editorial boards of several other journals. Since 1992 he is a member the Managing Editorial Board of Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (Am International Journal) and its EiC since 2000. Miguel Esquivel is a senior researcher at the National Centre for Laboratory Animal Breeding, CENPALAB, Cuba. Long Chunlin is a professor at Minzu University of China, China.

1. Introduction 2. Material and methods 3. Results and discussion 4. Prospects of genomics - providing new insights into the evolutionary history of crop plants 5. East Asiatic region of diversity 6. Indochinese-Indonesian region of diversity 7. Australian Oceania region of diversity 8. Hindustani region of diversity 9. Central Asiatic region of diversity 10. Near Eastern region of diversity 11. Mediterranean region of diversity 12. African region of diversity 13. European Siberian region of diversity 14. South American region of diversity 15. Central American and Caribbean region of diversity 16. North American region of diversity 17. References