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wildrelatives, etc ; Macrotyloma uniflorum; conspecificity; evolution; germplasm; new species; India; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Correcting taxonomic misidentifications is crucial to ensuring the conservation and use of wild relatives in crop breeding programmes. Macrotyloma sar-garhwalensis R.D.Gaur & L.R.Dangwal, described as a new species from Uttarakhand (India) in 1997, is one such case of mistaken identity. Critical study of its protologue, type specimen, and field-grown plants indicated that this species was conspeci ...
wildrelatives, etc ; Trifolium fragiferum; biomass production; climate change; ecotypes; legumes; metabolism; nutrition; phytomass; salinity; salt tolerance; stolons; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Crop wild relatives represent a valuable resource for the breeding of new crop varieties suitable for sustainable productivity in conditions of climate change. The aim of the present study was to assess salt tolerance of several wild accessions of T. fragiferum from habitats with different salinity levels in controlled conditions. Decrease of plant biomass and changes in partitioning between diffe ...
... Providing hands-on education for the next generation of plant breeders would help maximize effectiveness of future breeding efforts. Such education should include training in introgression of crop wild relative alleles, which can increase genetic diversity while providing cultivar attributes that meet industry and consumer demands in a crop such as cider apple. Incorporation of DNA information in ...
wildrelatives, etc ; biodiversity; biodiversity conservation; climate; climate change; ecosystems; genetic variation; humans; Andes region; California; Caucasus region; Mediterranean region; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Biodiversity is currently experiencing exceptional loss due to the activities of humans, negatively impacting the ecosystem services on which humanity relies. Additionally, human induced climate change is already negatively impacting agriculture worldwide – a trend that will only worsen - leading to reduced yields for some crops and regions. Crop wild relatives (CWR) the wild cousins of domesticat ...
wildrelatives, etc ; Saccharum officinarum; autopolyploidy; biofuels; cost effectiveness; crops; genetic markers; genome; genotyping; interspecific hybridization; research and development; restriction fragment length polymorphism; single nucleotide polymorphism; sugarcane; sugars; Show all 15 Subjects
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... Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is one of the world’s most important economic crops for both the food and biofuel industries. It has one of the most complex genomes of any crop plant, varieties are unbalanced polyploids and derived from interspecific hybridisation between the domesticated Saccharum officinarum and a wild relative S. spontaneum. Here I review sugarcane’s complex genetics and cha ...
wildrelatives, etc ; DNA; Glycine soja; Thanatephorus cucumeris; blight; cluster analysis; genetic variation; soybeans; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Forty‐seven genotypes and one wild relative of soybean, Glycine soja, were screened for resistance against aerial blight under epiphytotic conditions in the field during the Kharif season of two consecutive years viz., 2016 and 2017. Out of the 48 genotypes screened, only 18 genotypes exhibited a moderately resistant response to aerial blight during both the years of study. In order to perform mol ...
wildrelatives, etc ; breadfruits; new species; Indonesia; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Artocarpus bergii, named for the late C. C. Berg, is from Halmahera in the Moluccas, and is a close ally of breadfruit (A. altilis). The species resembles the Micronesian A. mariannensis but with generally smaller parts. Because it is known from only a small area and the type locality is a potential mining site, A. bergii is likely of conservation concern, particularly given its status as a crop w ...
... KEY MESSAGE: An enhanced grain weight locus from Agropyron cristatum chromosome 7P was verified in two wheat backgrounds, localized to the 7PS1-2 region. Novel translocation lines with this locus were evaluated. Agropyron cristatum is a wild relative of wheat that harbours elite genes for wheat improvement. The wheat-A. cristatum 7P disomic addition line II-5-1 exhibits high grain weight. Here, to ...
wildrelatives, etc ; archaeology; data collection; domestication; evolution; food security; genes; landraces; Australia; Brazil; Western Africa; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Crop wild relatives (CWR) are important sources of adaptive diversity for plant breeding programmes. This paper aims to investigate the extent to which the centres of crop origin/diversity are congruent with areas of high CWR diversity. We established the predicted potential CWR distributions for 1,425 CWR species related to 167 crops using 334,527 known distribution locations and generated a glob ...
wildrelatives, etc ; Calibrachoa; color; endosperm; gibberellins; polyamines; seed coat; seed dormancy; seed germination; temperature; viability; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Calibrachoa sellowiana (Sendtn.) Wijsman is a wild relative’s crop of ornamental Solanaceae that could give us a broader spectrum of physiological behaviours about the control of the seed germination process. In this study, we investigated the physiological relationship between gibberellins and polyamines on germination and identify the physiological quality of C. sellowiana seeds. Ripe seeds were ...
wildrelatives, etc ; Leymus racemosus; ammonia; chromosomes; farms; food production; greenhouse gases; life cycle assessment; nitrification; nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; nitrous oxide; nutrient use efficiency; pollution; population growth; research; runoff; soil; volatilization; wheat; Show all 20 Subjects
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... It is essential to increase food production to meet the projected population increase while reducing environmental loads. Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI)-enabled wheat genetic stocks are under development through chromosome engineering by transferring chromosomal regions carrying the BNI trait from a wild relative (Leymus racemosus (Lam.) Tzvelev) into elite wheat varieties; field evalua ...
wildrelatives, etc ; Cajanus cajan; Cajanus scarabaeoides; Helicoverpa armigera; herbivores; insects; microRNA; pest resistance; pests; pigeon peas; Show all 10 Subjects
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... KEY MESSAGE: Comparative analysis of herbivory responsive miRNAs between pod borer susceptible C. cajan and its resistant Crop Wild Relative (CWR) C. scarabaeoides revealed miRNA-based regulation of defense genes and plant–insect interactions. Gram pod borer (Helicoverpa armigera) is one of most devastating pests of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) worldwide, responsible for huge losses in crop producti ...
... Curcuma zanthorrhiza Roxb. produces significant quantity of curcumin and essential oil in its rhizomes, hence can be used as an alternate source of curcumin. The differential expression of curcumin synthase (CURS) genes and subsequent curcumin production varied at the different developmental stages of the plant. The present study focused on the relative quantification of putative CURS (CURS1, CURS ...
... MAIN CONCLUSION: Plants exposed to equivalent ozone fluxes administered during day-time versus night-time exhibited greater losses in biomass at night and this finding is attributed to night-time depletion of cell wall-localised ascorbate. The present study employed Lactuca sativa and its closest wild relative, L. serriola, to explore the relative sensitivity of plants to ozone-induced oxidative s ...
wildrelatives, etc ; Allium; Pseudomonas; altitude; bacterial communities; bioinformatics; community structure; genes; microbiome; onions; rhizosphere; soil; East Asia; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Plant-associated microorganisms are known to contribute with various beneficial functions to the health and productivity of their hosts, yet the microbiome of most plants remains unexplored. This especially applies to wild relatives of cultivated plants, which might harbor beneficial microorganisms that were lost during intensive breeding. We studied bacterial communities of the Himalayan onion (A ...
... Adaptation measures are necessary to ensure the stability and performance of the food supply relative to anthropogenic climate change. Although a wide range of measures have been proposed (e.g., planting dates, crop choices, drought resistance), there may be a ubiquitous means to increase productivity relatively quickly. Numerous studies have shown that the projected increase in atmospheric CO₂ ca ...
wildrelatives, etc ; Pisum fulvum; climate; climate change; demography; ex situ conservation; genetic variation; geographical distribution; peas; selfing; socioeconomics; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Plant breeders and conservationist depend on knowledge about the genetic variation of their species of interest. Pisum fulvum, a wild relative of domesticated pea, has attracted attention as a genetic resource for crop improvement, yet little information about its diversity in the wild has been published hitherto. We sampled 15 populations of P. fulvum from Israeli natural habitats and conducted g ...
... Teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis), the wild progenitor of maize (Zea mays L.), is an important germplasm resource for improvement of modern maize lines. However, we have limited genetic and genomic information about teosinte and lack state‐of‐the‐art tools to annotate transcriptomes assembled by single‐molecule long‐read sequencing without a reference genome. Here, we employed single‐molecule l ...
wildrelatives, etc ; crops; domestication; food security; halophytes; soil salinization; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This work analyzes the current trends in land salinization and its impact on the global food security. It is argued that reliance on salt-excluding crops is counterproductive and environmentally unsustainable. New breeding paradigms are required to incorporate halophytic traits that were present in wild relatives but lost during domestication. ...
... More than half of the calories consumed by humans are provided by three major cereal crops (rice, maize, and wheat). Orphan crops are usually well adapted to low-input agricultural conditions, and they not only play vital roles in local areas but can also contribute to food and nutritional needs worldwide. Interestingly, many wild relatives of orphan crops are important weeds of major crops. Altho ...