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An inventory of crop wild relatives of the Maltese Islands
Crop wild relatives are sources of genetic diversity valuable for crop improvement to address the challenges faced by agriculture in withstanding...
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Strategies for utilization of crop wild relatives in plant breeding programs
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are weedy and wild relatives of the domesticated and cultivated crops, which usually occur and are maintained in natural...
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Conservation of Wild Food Plants and Crop Wild Relatives: Planning, Strategies, Priorities, and Legal Frameworks
Wild food plants (WFPs) are nutritionally rich and are consumed by the indigenous communities whereas crop wild relatives (CWRs) are the wild...
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The primal garden: Tajikistan as a biodiversity hotspot of food crop wild relatives
Despite being located within a primary region of crop diversity, documentation of Tajik crop and crop wild relative (CWR) resources is far from...
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In situ and ex situ conservation gap analyses of West African priority crop wild relatives
Crop wild relatives are genetically related wild taxa of crops with unique resources for crop improvement through the transfer of novel and...
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Crop wild relatives in Lebanon: map** the distribution of Poaceae and Fabaceae priority taxa for conservation planning
Lebanon is a part of the Fertile Crescent recognized for its agrobiodiversity wealth in terms of both cultivated plants and crop wild relatives (CWR)...
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Exploitation of epigenetic variation of crop wild relatives for crop improvement and agrobiodiversity preservation
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are recognized as the best potential source of traits for crop improvement. However, successful crop improvement using CWR...
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A prioritised inventory of crop wild relatives and wild harvested plants of Tunisia
An inventory of crop wild relatives (CWR) and wild harvested plants (WHP) occurring in Tunisia, based on the integration of the last available...
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Utilization of Wild Food Plants for Crop Improvement Programs
Crop wild relatives or wild plants related to domesticated crops are potential resources for crop improvement. They can be landraces, crop...
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Omics-driven utilization of wild relatives for empowering pre-breeding in pearl millet
Main conclusionPearl millet wild relatives harbour novel alleles which could be utilized to broaden genetic base of cultivated species....
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Sustainable Utilization of Wild Germplasm Resources
Breeders have received a number of “game-changing” features or genes from crop wild relatives (CWRs), which have increased crop resilience and...
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Dissecting brown planthopper resistance genes in Oryza and its wild relatives: A review
Rice is cultivated and consumed worldwide. It belongs to genus ‘ Oryza ’ with about 21 wild relatives and eight identified genomes which makes it...
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Haplotype-resolved genomes of wild octoploid progenitors illuminate genomic diversifications from wild relatives to cultivated strawberry
Strawberry is an emerging model for studying polyploid genome evolution and rapid domestication of fruit crops. Here we report haplotype-resolved...
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Association study between some cultivated species and their wild relatives from Apiaceae, Asteraceae and Brassicaceae families based on molecular and DNA barcoding in Egypt
Concerns about food security worldwide have been raised due to the adverse impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity. Utilizing wild...
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Physiological and molecular responses of wild relatives of wheat possessing the D genome to salinity stress
Salinity stress is one of the most destructive environmental stresses that considerably reduces wheat growth, development, and productivity. In...
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Population structure and genetic differentiation analyses reveal high level of diversity and allelic richness in crop wild relatives of AA genome species of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in India
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are vital sources of variation for genetic improvement, but their populations are few in genebanks, eroded in natural...
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Complete pan-plastome sequences enable high resolution phylogenetic classification of sugar beet and closely related crop wild relatives
BackgroundAs the major source of sugar in moderate climates, sugar-producing beets ( Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris ) have a high economic value....
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Expanding the gene pool for soybean improvement with its wild relatives
Genetic diversity is a cornerstone of crop improvement, However, cultivated soybean ( Glycine max ) has undergone several genetic bottlenecks,...
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Genome Sequences from Diploids and Wild Relatives of Wheat for Comparative Genomics and Alien Introgressions
Bread wheat is an important food source worldwide, contributing ~20% of the caloric intake per person worldwide. Due to a domestication bottleneck...
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Cryopreservation Protocol for Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and its wild relatives Pollen for Utilization in Crop Improvement
Tomato is the most extensively used crop for breeding programs and has wide genetic resources which possess numerous important genes....