Colin K. Khoury,^1,2,*,** Stephanie L. Greene,^1,*** Sarada Krishnan,^3,**** Allison J. Miller,^4,5,***** Tara Moreau,^6,****** Karen A. Williams,^7,******* Lorraine Rodriguez-Bonilla,^8,******** Carol S. Spurrier,^9,********* Juan Zalapa,^{10,**********} Gary Paul Nabhan<sup>11,***********

1</sup>1United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Laboratory for Gen
²2International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Km 17, Recta Cali-Palmira, Apartado Aéreo 671
³3Denver Botanic Gardens, 909 York St., Denver, CO 80206
⁴4Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, 1 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103
⁵5Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N. Warson Rd., St. Louis, MO 63132
⁶6University of British Columbia Botanical Garden, 6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
⁷7United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Germplasm Resource
⁸8University of Wisconsin, Department of Horticulture, 1575 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706
⁹9United States Department of Agriculture, US Forest Service; Forest Management, Rangeland Management
¹⁰10United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Vegetable Crops Research U
¹¹11University of Arizona, Southwest Center and Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, AZ 85721

^*Corresponding author: c.khoury@cgiar.org; 970-237-9571
^**Colin K. Khoury is a research associate at the USDA ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins, Colorado, and a crop diversity specialist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia. His broad research interests are in enhancing food security, human nutrition, and the sustainability of agricultural production systems through the conservation, exploration, and celebration of plant diversity. Current projects focus on conservation strategies for crop wild relatives and crop landraces; Aichi Biodiversity Target, Sustainable Development Goal, and International Plant Treaty indicators; and evidence-based decision making in sustainable food systems.
^***Stephanie L. Greene is a Supervisory Plant Physiologist at the USDA ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins, Colorado, and a faculty affiliate with Colorado State University in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences. She serves as seed curator, managing safety duplicate seed collections of the USDA National Plant Germplasm System, as well as over 50 other institutes, including international and national research centers, Native American, and botanical garden organizations. Her broad research interest is in ex situ conservation and the effective and efficient management of genebanks to support the use of agricultural biodiversity to develop climate-resilient, sustainable food and agricultural production. She has a specific interest in conserving the rich diversity of crop wild relative species native to North America.
^****Sarada Krishnan is director of horticulture and global initiatives at Denver Botanic Gardens. She is also a faculty affiliate with Colorado State University in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. She is a coffee genetic resources specialist and was involved in the development of the Global Conservation Strategy for Coffee Genetic Resources. Her broad interests include biodiversity conservation—both ex situ and in situ, agrobiodiversity, sustainable coffee cultivation, agroforestry, food security, botanic gardens, and economic empowerment of women and girls in developing countries. She currently serves on USDA's National Genetic Resources Advisory Council.
^*****Allison J. Miller is in a joint faculty partnership between Saint Louis University and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. She is a Research Associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Her research group studies perennial plant diversity and evolution. The goal of this work is to advance the basic understanding of phenotypic plasticity and the genetic underpinnings of phenotypic variation in long-lived plants, and to apply this work to the conservation of perennial plant genetic resources, perennial crop improvement, and development of perennial crops for sustainable agricultural systems.
^******Tara Moreau is Associate Director of Sustainability and Community Programs at University of British Columbia Botanical Garden. With the goals of advancing sustainability and biodiversity conservation, Tara designs and contributes to programs and partnerships such as the Sustainable Communities Field School and the Grow Green Guide. Tara has over 15 years' experience working to advance sustainable food systems. Her publications, presentations, and educational programs integrate climate change, food systems policy and planning, sustainability education, agriculture, biodiversity, behavioral science, and citizen science.
^*******Karen A. Williams is a Botanist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service National Germplasm Resources Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. She manages the Plant Exploration Program for the US National Plant Germplasm System. She has been involved in the collection, documentation, and conservation of crop wild relatives in several countries. One of her current interests is the development of partnerships among different institutions to link in situ and ex situ conservation of crop wild relatives in the United States.
^********Lorraine Rodriguez-Bonilla is a postdoc in the Cranberry Genetics and Genomics laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research and interests include assessing the genetic diversity of wild populations of cranberry in their native ranges, conservation of agricultural resources, food security, and the nexus of agriculture, food production and society. Her current projects involve understanding the diversity of wild populations, development of linkage maps, and evolution of species in the genus Vaccinium.
^*********Carol S. Spurrier is an Ecologist in the USDA Forest Service Washington Office. She has a wide variety of botanical interests and work experiences in land management agencies including plant community classification, standardized monitoring for plant community conditions and trends, rare plant management, native pollinator management and protection, and native seed collection.
^**********Juan Zalapa is a USDA-ARS Research Geneticist in the Vegetable Crop Research Unit at the Horticulture Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current research focuses on cranberry breeding, genetics, and genomics. His lab uses molecular tools in conjunction with traditional plant breeding to meet current and future challenges in the cranberry industry, including increasing yield in sustainable production systems, improving berry quality and nutrition, and responding to increasingly variable and extreme climates, insects, and disease pressures.
^***********Gary Paul Nabhan is the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Arizona Southwest Center, and a research scientist at the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill. He works with students, faculty, and nonprofits to build a more just, nutritious, sustainable, and climate-resilient foodshed spanning the U.S./Mexico border.