What is it about?
We made a collection of wild relatives of chickpea in Turkey, and have begun using them to improve the drought tolerance and disease resistance of chickpea.
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Why is it important?
Chickpea is a major source of nutrients and protein to many people around the world. Increasing the productivity of the crop is a key necessity for improving food security for many of the most food insecure people around the world.
Perspectives
Using crop wild relatives has been a challenge in crop breeding, but can be done more easily with emerging tools from genomes. Here we use a broad range of tools including genomics to show the power of using crop wild relatives in breeding programs.
Professor Eric von Wettberg
University of Vermont
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This page is a summary of: Ecology and genomics of an important crop wild relative as a prelude to agricultural innovation, Nature Communications, February 2018, Nature,
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02867-z.
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