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Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops.
Trends in biotechnology - 1 Apr 2022
Bohra Abhishek, Kilian Benjamin, Sivasankar Shoba, Caccamo Mario, Mba Chikelu, McCouch Susan R, Varshney Rajeev K
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Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several 'game-changing' traits or genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in breeding and genomics have accelerated the identification of valuable CWRs for use in crop improvement. The enhanced genetic diversity of breeding pools carrying optimum combinations of favorable alleles for targeted crop-growing regions...
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