How could the use of crop wild relatives in breeding increase the adaptation of crops to marginal environments?

JP Renzi, CJ Coyne, J Berger, E von Wettberg… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Introducing beneficial alleles from plant genetic resources into the wheat germplasm

S Sharma, AW Schulthess, FM Bassi, ED Badaeva… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Many crops including wheat have a narrow genetic base after hundreds of
years of breeding and selection. This makes it difficult to breed new varieties with increased …

[PDF][PDF] Crop Science special issue: Adapting agriculture to climate change: A walk on the wild side

B Kilian, H Dempewolf, L Guarino, P Werner… - Crop …, 2021 - researchgate.net
Plant domestication and crop improvement have resulted in reduced genetic diversity in
most of our cultivated crops, thus limiting their potential to adapt to future challenges (Byrne …

Application of crop wild relatives in modern breeding: An overview of resources, experimental and computational methodologies

S Tirnaz, J Zandberg, WJW Thomas, J Marsh… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Document or lose it—On the importance of information management for genetic resources conservation in genebanks

S Weise, U Lohwasser, M Oppermann - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Genebanks play an important role in the long-term conservation of plant genetic resources
and are complementary to the conservation of diversity in farmers' fields and in nature. In this …

Adapting agriculture to climate change: A synopsis of coordinated national crop wild relative seed collecting programs across five continents

RJ Eastwood, BB Tambam, LM Aboagye, ZI Akparov… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project set out to improve the diversity, quantity,
and accessibility of germplasm collections of crop wild relatives (CWR). Between 2013 and …

Towards smart and sustainable development of modern berry cultivars in Europe

E Senger, S Osorio, K Olbricht, P Shaw… - The plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fresh berries are a popular and important component of the human diet. The demand for
high‐quality berries and sustainable production methods is increasing globally, challenging …

Conventional and new genetic resources for an eggplant breeding revolution

P Gramazio, D Alonso, A Arrones… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is a major vegetable crop with great potential for genetic
improvement owing to its large and mostly untapped genetic diversity. It is closely related to …

Tapping diversity from the wild: from sampling to implementation

S Hübner, MB Kantar - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The diversity observed among crop wild relatives (CWRs) and their ability to flourish in
unfavorable and harsh environments have drawn the attention of plant scientists and …

The landscape of nutri-informatics: a review of current resources and challenges for integrative nutrition research

L Chan, N Vasilevsky, A Thessen, J McMurry… - Database, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Informatics has become an essential component of research in the past few decades,
capitalizing on the efficiency and power of computation to improve the knowledge gained …