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Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) a Genetic Pool for Crop Improvement: A Review
Agricultural Reviews, 2023 Deleterious effects of climatic changes and diverse environmental conditions, possess a major threat to agriculture in terms of growth and yield. So, to meet these challenges, there is a need to develop new crop varieties containing traits resistant ...
Amandeep Kaur, M. Sangha
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Flower color polymorphism of a wild Iris on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau
BMC Plant Biology, 2023 Background Flower color plays a crucial role in attracting pollinators and facilitating environmental adaptation. Investigating the causes of flower color polymorphism and understanding their potential effects on both ecology and genetics can enhance our
Zhi-Li Zhou +7 more
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Toward integrated conservation of North America's crop wild relatives [PDF]
, 2020 North America harbors a rich native flora of crop wild relatives—the progenitors and closely related species of domesticated plants—as well as a range of culturally significant wild utilized plants.
Greene, Stephanie L. +9 more
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A prioritised inventory of crop wild relatives and wild harvested plants of Tunisia
Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2022 An inventory of crop wild relatives (CWR) and wild harvested plants (WHP) occurring in Tunisia, based on the integration of the last available floristic checklists, is presented.
Ridha El Mokni +4 more
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Hybridization between wild and cultivated potato species in the Peruvian Andes and biosafety implications for deployment of GM potatoes [PDF]
, 2008 The nature and extent of past and current hybridization between cultivated potato and wild relatives in nature is of interest to crop evolutionists, taxonomists, breeders and recently to molecular biologists because of the possibilities of inverse gene ...
Celis Gamboa, B.C. +4 more
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In situ and ex situ conservation gap analyses of West African priority crop wild relatives
Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2022 Crop wild relatives are genetically related wild taxa of crops with unique resources for crop improvement through the transfer of novel and profitable genes.
M. Nduche +3 more
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Phylogeny and Biogeography of Morus (Moraceae)
Agronomy, 2023 The mulberry genus, Morus L. (Moraceae), has long been taxonomically difficult, and its species circumscription has only been defined recently. This genus comprises ca.
Chen-Xuan Yang +14 more
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Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 2022 Natural vanilla is a high-value crop with demand increasing globally. Crop wild relatives (CWR) represent valuable agrobiodiversity and are prioritized in the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
N. S. Flanagan +3 more
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Epigenetic modifications: Allusive clues of lncRNA functions in plants
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2023 Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been verified as flexible and important factors in various biological processes of multicellular eukaryotes, including plants.
Wenjing Yang +4 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 Sustainable conservation of crop wild relatives is one of the pathways to securing global food security amid climate change threats to biodiversity.
Leonard Manda +3 more
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