Español: Hacia una "lista roja" de especies de plantas agrícolas

Red lists of threatened plants are in common use for wild plants (IUCN 2001). However, whereas these lists are being developed further and are already being supplemented or replaced by green lists (Imboden 1999) and blue lists (Gigon et al. 2000) and conservationists discuss about flagship, umbrella, keystone, indicator and surrogate species (Simberloff 1998; Caro and O’Doherty 1999), crop plants still lack similar approaches. As the term genetic erosion was originally coined for crop plants, we have to conclude that crop scientists are well aware of threats to crop plants, but are mostly concerned with the rapidly disappearing landraces (i.e. at the infraspecific level) with their important quality and resistance characters, rather than the loss of entire species of crop plants.