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Back to the wilds: tapping evolutionary adaptations for resilient crops through systematic hybridization with crop wild relatives.
American journal of botany - 1 Oct 2014
Warschefsky Emily, Penmetsa R Varma, Cook Douglas R, von Wettberg Eric J B
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The genetic diversity of our crop plants has been substantially reduced during the process of domestication and breeding. This reduction in diversity necessarily constrains our ability to expand a crop's range of cultivation into environments that are more extreme than those in which it was domesticated, including into "sustainable" agricultural systems with reduced inputs of pesticides, water, and fertilizers....
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