U.S. Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, Nebraska
Date of this Version
3-2017
Citation
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BEAN IMPROVEMENT COOPERATIVE, No. 60, March 2017. Published by USDA.
Abstract
The management and conservation of landraces and wild germplasm of Phaseolus have influenced the diversity levels reported in previous studies (Worthington et al., 2012; Soleri et al., 2013; Chávez-Servia et al., 2016). Oaxaca is located at southern Mexico and it is a complex state due its accidental geography and variable climatic composition influenced by the Gulf of México and the Pacific Ocean (García-Mendoza et al., 2004). The state of Oaxaca is divided into eight ethno-cultural regions (INEGI, 2017; http://www.inegi.org.mx) clearly differentiated by the presence of ethno-linguistic groups and a wide variety of landscapes, weather, wildlife and vegetation. The main linguistics families in Oaxaca are ‘Zapotecos’, ‘Mixtecos’, ‘Chinantecos’, ‘Mixes’, ‘Triquis’, and ‘Mazatecos’; they summarize sixteen different groups each one divided in linguistic variations (Ordóñez, 2000). Agriculture is the leading activity of these ethnical groups and they maintain landraces that have been inherited (Espinosa-Pérez et al., 2014) by his ancestors including the involved knowledge for the conservation and agronomic management. The aim of this work was to analyze and characterize seed management systems by farmers from Oaxaca, México
Comments
U.S. government work.