Extinction risk of Mesoamerican crop wild relatives
Plants, People, Planet, 2021 Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant taxa closely related to crops and are a source of high genetic diversity that can help adapt crops to the impacts of global change, particularly to meet increasing consumer demand in the face ...
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Genomic conservation of crop wild relatives: A case study of citrus. [PDF]
PLoS Genet, 2023 Conservation of crop wild relatives is critical for plant breeding and food security. The lack of clarity on the genetic factors that lead to endangered status or extinction create difficulties when attempting to develop concrete recommendations for ...
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Crop Wild Relatives: A Valuable Source of Tolerance to Various Abiotic Stresses. [PDF]
Plants (Basel), 2023 Global climate change is one of the major constraints limiting plant growth, production, and sustainability worldwide. Moreover, breeding efforts in the past years have focused on improving certain favorable crop traits, leading to genetic bottlenecks ...
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Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops [PDF]
Trends in Biotechnology, 2022 Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several 'game-changing' traits or genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in breeding and genomics have accelerated the identification of valuable CWRs for use in crop improvement.
Abhishek Bohra +6 more
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Insights into the Transcriptomics of Crop Wild Relatives to Unravel the Salinity Stress Adaptive Mechanisms. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2023 The narrow genomic diversity of modern cultivars is a major bottleneck for enhancing the crop’s salinity stress tolerance. The close relatives of modern cultivated plants, crop wild relatives (CWRs), can be a promising and sustainable resource to broaden
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Utilization of crop wild relatives for biotic and abiotic stress management in Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. & Coss.]. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2023 Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. & Coss. (Indian mustard) is an economically important edible oil crop. Over the years, plant breeders have developed many elite varieties of B.
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The Prospects of gene introgression from crop wild relatives into cultivated lentil for climate change mitigation. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2023 Crop wild relatives (CWRs), landraces and exotic germplasm are important sources of genetic variability, alien alleles, and useful crop traits that can help mitigate a plethora of abiotic and biotic stresses and crop yield reduction arising due to global
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How Could the Use of Crop Wild Relatives in Breeding Increase the Adaptation of Crops to Marginal Environments? [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2022 Alongside the use of fertilizer and chemical control of weeds, pests, and diseases modern breeding has been very successful in generating cultivars that have increased agricultural production several fold in favorable environments.
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Application of crop wild relatives in modern breeding: An overview of resources, experimental and computational methodologies. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2022 Global agricultural industries are under pressure to meet the future food demand; however, the existing crop genetic diversity might not be sufficient to meet this expectation.
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Incorporating evolutionary and threat processes into crop wild relatives conservation. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Biodiversity conservation calls for spatial explicit approaches to maximize the representation and persistence of genetic diversity given species’ idiosyncratic threats in mosaic landscapes, but conservation planning methodologies seldom account for this.
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