Terms used on the Crop Genebank Knowledge Base.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| CIP |
International Potato Center - Centro Internacional de la Papa (website) |
| CIRAD |
Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le developpement CIRAD |
| Cladistic Species Concept |
A philosophy and set of methods that use cladistic criteria to determine the limits of species. |
| Cladistics |
A branch of biology that determines evolutionary branching orders or trees of descent based on derived similarities (see phenetics). |
| Cladogram |
A branching phylogenetic tree of individuals or taxa rooted on an outgroup(s) produced by a method that minimizes evolutionary changes (by parsimony maximum likelihood or other methods) of characters believed to be homologous among a group of organisms. |
| Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequence |
(CAPS) A molecular marker technique that is based on the amplification of DNA fragments by PCR followed by DNA restriction of the fragments. |
| CLIMA |
Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (website) |
| Codominant marker |
A genetic marker for which all alleles are expressed when co-occurring in an individual. |
| Collection |
A group of germplasm accessions maintained for a specific purpose under defined conditions. |
| Comparative genomics |
A research field directed to the comparison of genomes from different species in order to obtain a better understanding of the evolution of species and the location and functioning of genes. |
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