Replication Data for: Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerancedoi:10.7910/DVN/GU5AJWHarvard Dataverse2015-07-201Khoury, Colin K; Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P; Achicanoy, Harold A; Sosa, Chrystian C; Bernau, Vivian; Kassa, Mulualem T; Norton, Sally L; Van Der Maesen, Jos G; Upadhyaya, Hari D; Ramirez Villegas, Julian; Jarvis, Andy; Struik, Paul C, 2015, "Replication Data for: Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GU5AJW, Harvard Dataverse, V1Replication Data for: Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerancedoi:10.7910/DVN/GU5AJWKhoury, Colin KCastañeda Álvarez, Nora PAchicanoy, Harold ASosa, Chrystian CBernau, VivianKassa, Mulualem TNorton, Sally LVan Der Maesen, Jos GUpadhyaya, Hari DRamirez Villegas, JulianJarvis, AndyStruik, Paul CInternational Center for Tropical AgricultureHarvard DataverseInternational Center for Tropical AgricultureCIAT Data and Research MethodsMwanzia, Leroy2015-07-202015-07-20Earth and Environmental SciencesCrop diversityCrop improvementCrop wild relativesFood securityGermplasm conservationPlant genetic resourcesLatin America and the CaribbeanDecision and Policy Analysis - DAPACrop diversityCrop wild relativesPigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a versatile, stress-tolerant, and nutritious grain legume, possessing traits of value for enhancing the sustainability of dry sub-tropical and tropical agricultural systems. The use of crop wild relatives (CWR) in pigeonpea breeding has been successful in providing important resistance, quality, and breeding efficiency traits to the crop. Current breeding objectives for pigeonpea include increasing its tolerance to abiotic stresses, including heat, cold, drought, and waterlogging. Here we assess the potential for pigeonpea CWR to be further employed in crop improvement by compiling wild species occurrence and ex situ conservation information, producing geographic distribution models for the species, identifying gaps in the comprehensiveness of current germplasm collections, and using ecogeographic information to identify CWR populations with the potential to contribute agronomic traits of priority to breeders. The fifteen prioritized relatives of pigeonpea generally occur in South and Southeast Asia to Australia, with the highest concentrations of species in southern India and northern Australia. These taxa differ considerably among themselves and in comparison to the crop in their adaptations to temperature, precipitation and edaphic conditions. We find that these wild genetic resources are broadly under-represented in ex situ conservation systems, with 80% of species assessed as high priority for further collecting, thus their availability to plant breeders is insufficient. We identify species and highlight geographic locations for further collecting in order to improve the completeness of pigeonpea CWR germplasm collections, with particular emphasis on potential traits for abiotic stress tolerance.Experimental DataGenomic DataWhilst utmost care has been taken CIAT and data authors while collecting and compiling the data, the data is however offered "as is" with no express or implied warranty. 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Related publications are listed in the metadata section of the Dataverse study.<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /> These data and documents are licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank"> Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.</a> You may copy, distribute and transmit the data as long as you acknowledge the source through proper <a href="http://best-practices.dataverse.org/data-citation/" target="_blank">data citation</a>.Khoury, Colin K., et al. "Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance." Biological Conservation 184 (2015): 259-270.10.1016/j.biocon.2015.01.032Khoury, Colin K., et al. 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