Bohra, A and Kilian, B and Sivasankar, S and Caccamo, M and Mba, C and McCouch, S R and Varshney, R K (2021) Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops. Trends in Biotechnology, 40 (4). pp. 412-431. ISSN 0167-7799
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Abstract
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 is crucial to sustain genetic gain. In parallel, growing sequence information on wild genomes in combination with precise gene-editing tools provide a fast-track route to transform CWRs into ideal future crops. Data-informed germplasm collection and management strategies together with adequate policy support will be equally important to improve access to CWRs and their sustainable use to meet food and nutrition security targets.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | adaptation, crop wild relatives (CWRs), genebanks, genetic diversity, introgression breeding, linkage drag, pre-breeding |
| Subjects: | Others > Genetics and Genomics Others > Gene Bank |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2024 10:10 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2024 10:10 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12583 |
| Official URL: | https://www.cell.com/trends/biotechnology/fulltext... |
| Projects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Acknowledgement: | R.K.V. thanks the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, for providing a J C Bose National Fellowship (SB/S9/Z-13/2019). B.K. thanks the Government of Norway (QZA-14/0005) for funding the initiative “Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives” (https://www.cwrdiversity.org/project/pre-breeding/). Thanks are also due to Rutwik Barmukh, from ICRISAT, and Abha Tiwari from ICAR–IIPR for their help and support in the preparation of this article. |
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