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Comparison of multi-stress resilience in wild and domesticated Cowpea.
Scientific reports - 13 Jan 2026
De Meyer Emiel, Van Cauter Fien, Vandelook Filip, de la Peña Eduardo
Abstract excerpt
A common hypothesis in plant science is that wild relatives of crops possess greater resilience to multiple stresses because they retain adaptive traits that have been diminished through domestication. Such reductions in resilience in cultivated crops are often attributed to trade-offs, whereby selection for agronomic performance decreases investment in stress tolerance. Alternatively, weakened multi-stress...
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