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 …

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. Advances …

Modern agriculture depends on a narrow variety of crop species, leaving global food and
nutritional security highly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change and population …

The study centers on the valorization of Beta macrocarpa Guss., an endangered
Mediterranean wild plant that grows in Tunisia. This plant is disappearing due to a reduction …

Aim of this work is to evaluate the in situ status of different crop wild relative species in Italy
by analysing the geographic distribution of their populations and to suggests possible …

Lebanon is a part of the Fertile Crescent recognized for its agrobiodiversity wealth in terms
of both cultivated plants and crop wild relatives (CWR) diversity. Within the context of climate …

Ensuring global food security in the face of climate change is critical to human survival. With
a predicted human population of 9.6 billion in 2050 and the demand for food supplies …

Despite being located within a primary region of crop diversity, documentation of Tajik crop
and crop wild relative (CWR) resources is far from comprehensive, particularly regarding …

In Tunisia, arboriculture occupies a surface of 2.155 million ha. The country is characterized
by a rich genetic heritage of fruit trees. Nevertheless, the local Tunisian accessions faced …

Wild food plants (WFPs) are nutritionally rich and are consumed by the indigenous
communities whereas crop wild relatives (CWRs) are the wild relatives of the domesticated …