The wild and weedy species genetically close enough to a domesticated crop to be crossed with it, carrying genes for drought tolerance, pest and disease resistance and other traits that generations of selection bred out of the cultivated line. Conserving them, in the wild and in seed banks, is treated as insurance for future breeding as the climate changes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wild relatives are concentrated in the same centers of origin where their domesticated descendants first arose.
Source Crop Wild Relative (Wikipedia)
Breeders cross cultivated varieties with wild relatives to reintroduce lost resistance and tolerance traits.
Source Crop Wild Relative (Wikipedia)
Seed banks such as Svalbard conserve crop wild relative material alongside cultivated varieties.
Source Crop Wild Relative (Wikipedia)
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1. Crop Wild Relative (Wikipedia)
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The wild and weedy species genetically close enough to a domesticated crop to be crossed with it, carrying genes for drought tolerance, pest and disease resistance and other traits that generations of selection bred out of the cultivated line.
- Associated With: Centers of Origin
- Associated With: Svalbard Global Seed Vault
- Associated With: Plant Breeding
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