Sentence examples for center of diversity from inspiring English sources
Both Mediterranean and Africa regions, respectively, are the center of origin [ 38] and secondary center of diversity [ 39] of chickpea, thus genetically more diverse than other region accessions.
Coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific constitute the center of diversity for marine fishes, whereas continental freshwater fishes are most diverse in large river basins of tropical rainforests, especially the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong basins.
Multiple drivers related to changes in climate and socio-cultural structure in the Peruvian Highland are of increasing importance for the loss of the biological diversity of potato landraces and related collective knowledge in their center of diversity.
Under this new delimitation, Primulina is essentially a calciphilous genus distributed in southern China and adjacent northern Vietnam, with the major center of diversity in the limestone karsts of Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region (Wang et al. 1998; Li and Wang 2004; Hou et al. 2010; Wei 2010; Weber et al. 2011; Xu et al. 2012ab).
The center of diversity of the genus Malus is in eastern Turkey.
Thailand is regarded by scientists as a center of diversity for cannabis and has a deep history of innovation in the sector, according to Plamondon.
Even the countries within the centers of diversity depend heavily on imported crops to feed their populations.
Vavilov eventually mapped eight centers of diversity, loosely grouped in a belt around the planet's middle.
But Fowler maintained that even primitive landraces represented many generations of selection by farmers who lived around the centers of diversity, going back thousands of years.
The North could have free access to the seeds from the centers of diversity only if the South could have free access to the patented seeds.
Armed with Vavilov's theory that the centers of diversity must be the centers of origin, India, Brazil, and Iran, among other countries, began to press their case in the F.A.O. for sovereignty over these resources.
