Exploitation of epigenetic variation of crop wild relatives for crop improvement and agrobiodiversity preservation. [PDF]
Theor Appl Genet, 2022 Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are recognized as the best potential source of traits for crop improvement. However, successful crop improvement using CWR relies on identifying variation in genes controlling desired traits in plant germplasms and subsequently
Varotto S +10 more
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Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) Threatened and Endemic to Italy: Urgent Actions for Protection and Use. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2022 Simple Summary Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are wild plants with an indirect use derived from their relatively close genetic relationship to a crop and have contributed to crop domestication for millennia.
Perrino EV, Wagensommer RP.
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Supporting in situ conservation of the genetic diversity of crop wild relatives using genomic technologies. [PDF]
Mol Ecol, 2022 The last decade has witnessed huge technological advances in genomics, particularly in DNA sequencing. Here, we review the actual and potential application of genomics in supporting in situ conservation of crop wild relatives (CWRs).
Wambugu PW, Henry R.
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Blueprints for sustainable plant production through the utilization of crop wild relatives and their microbiomes. [PDF]
Nat CommunConserving crop wild relatives (CWR) in their natural environments, together with the complex communities of microorganisms that live with them, could lay the foundation to unlock novel mechanisms for crop resilience and new strategies for achieving food
Waqas M +9 more
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Phylogenetic diversity and conservation of crop wild relatives in Colombia. [PDF]
Evol Appl, 2021 Crop wild relatives (CWR) are an important agricultural resource as they contain genetic traits not found in cultivated species due to localized adaptation to unique environmental and climatic conditions.
González-Orozco CE +3 more
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Genetic diversity and structure of Musa balbisiana populations in Vietnam and its implications for the conservation of banana crop wild relatives. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Crop wild relatives (CWR) are an indispensable source of alleles to improve desired traits in related crops. While knowledge on the genetic diversity of CWR can facilitate breeding and conservation strategies, it has poorly been assessed.
Mertens A +10 more
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Crop wild relatives of the United States require urgent conservation action. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance This study provides conservation assessments for 600 US native plants that are wild relatives of important agricultural crops. We found that more than one-half of the species may be endangered in their natural habitats, and that the great ...
Khoury CK +8 more
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Crop Wild Relatives as Germplasm Resource for Cultivar Improvement in Mint (Mentha L.). [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2020 Mentha is a strongly scented herb of the Lamiaceae (formerly Labiatae) and includes about 30 species and hybrid species that are distributed or introduced throughout the globe.
Vining KJ +5 more
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Main Challenges and Actions Needed to Improve Conservation and Sustainable Use of Our Crop Wild Relatives. [PDF]
Plants (Basel), 2020 Crop wild relatives (CWR, plural CWRs) are those wild species that are regarded as the ancestors of our cultivated crops. It was only at the end of the last century that they were accorded a high priority for their conservation and, thus, for many ...
Engels JMM, Thormann I.
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Crop wild relatives in Vologda Province
Труды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции, 2019 Background. Searching for new sources of genes for cultivated plants in order to increase their productivity, earliness, resistance, etc. is the vital problem of scientific work, since the need of mankind for food has increased in recent years many times.
L. Yu. Shipilina
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