Phenotypic diversity assessment within a major ex situ collection of wild endemic coffees in Madagascar.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Like other clades, the Coffea genus is highly diversified on the island of Madagascar. The 66 endemic species have colonized various environments and consequently exhibit a wide diversity of morphological, functional and phenological features and reproductive strategies. The trends of interspecific trait variation, which stems from interactions between genetically defined species and their environment, still needed to be addressed for Malagasy coffee trees.

Methods

Data acquisition was done in the most comprehensive ex situ collection of Madagascan wild Coffea. The structure of endemic wild coffees maintained in an ex situ collection was explored in terms of morphological, phenological and functional traits. The environmental (natural habitat) effect was

SUBMITTER: Rimlinger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7539352 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature