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Maxted, N., Avagyan, A. Frese, L., Iriondo, J.M., Magos Brehm, J., Singer, A. and Kell, S.P. (2015). Preserving diversity: a concept for in situ conservation of crop wild relatives in Europe. In Situ Working Group, European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources, Rome, Italy.
Vincent, H., Wiersema, J., Kell, S.P., Dobbie, S., Fielder, H., Castañeda Alvarez, N.P., Guarino, L., Eastwood, R., Leόn, B. & Maxted, N., (2013). A prioritised crop wild relative inventory as a first step to help underpin global food security. Biological Conservation, 167: 265-275.
Underwood, E, Poláková, J, Berman, S, Dooley, E, Frelih-Larsen, A, Kretschmer, B, Maxted, N, McConville, A J, Naumann, S, Sarteel, M and Tostivint, C (2013) Options for feeding 10 billion people. Sustainable intensification of crop production: climate change and agriculture; biodiversity and agriculture. Report prepared for the STOA Panel of the European Parliament. Contract IP/A/STOA/FWC/2008-096/LOT3/C1/SC5, European Parliament Science and Technology Options Assessment STOA. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/cms/studies
Maxted, N., Kell, S.P., Ford-Lloyd, B.V., Dulloo, M.E. & Toledo, A., (2012). Toward the systematic conservation of global crop wild relative diversity. Crop Sciences, 52(2): 774-785.
Hargreaves, S.; Maxted, N.; Hirano, R.; Abberton, M.; Skøt, L.; Ford-Lloyd, B. V., (2010). Islands as refugia of Trifolium repens genetic diversity. Conservation Genetics, 11(4): 1317-1326.
Maxted, N., Dulloo, E., Ford-Lloyd, B.V., Iriondo, J. & Jarvis, A., (2008). Genetic gap analysis: a tool for more effective genetic conservation assessment. Diversity and Distributions, 14: 1018-1030.
Bilz, M., Kell, S.P., Maxted, N. and Lansdown, R.V. (2011). European Red List of Vascular Plants. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. ISBN 978-92-79-20199-8.
Maxted, N., Dulloo, M.E., Ford-Lloyd, B.V., Frese, L., Iriondo, J.M. & Pinheiro de Carvalho, M.A.A., (eds.) (2011). Agrobiodiversity Conservation: Securing the Diversity of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces. CAB International, Wallingford.
Veteläinen, M., Negri, V. & Maxted, N. (eds.), (2009). European Landraces: On-farm conservation, Management and Use. Bioversity Technical Bulletin 15. Pp. 1-359. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy. ISBN: 978-92-9043-805-2.
Iriondo, J.M., Maxted, N. and Dulloo, E. (eds.), (2008). Conserving Plant Genetic Diversity in Protected Areas: Population Management of Crop Wild Relatives. CAB International, Wallingford. ISBN: 97-818-459328-24.
Maxted, N., Ford-Lloyd, B.V., Kell, S.P., Iriondo, J., Dulloo, E. & Turok, J. (eds.), (2008). Crop wild relative conservation and use. CAB International, Wallingford. ISBN: 97-818-4593099-8.
FTE Category A staff submitted: 42.80
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