What is it about?
In this piece we identify wild relatives of crop plants as key resources for genes and plant-associated microbes that could benefit adaptation, and call for their preservation.
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Why is it important?
Climate change is not only threatening crop productivity but is driving the loss of many plant species. Once these species are gone we lose the opportunity to study them and their unique features.
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This page is a summary of: Blueprints for sustainable plant production through the utilization of crop wild relatives and their microbiomes, Nature Communications, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61779-x.
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