Nordic Crop Wild Relatives

This website gives information about CWR in the 5 Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. The CWRs growing in the Nordic region are, like other wild populations, adapted to the local climate and conditions. This means that the CWRs contain unique adaptations to the marginal conditions of the region and therefore have the potential for facilitating the adaptation of crops to the local conditions. The Nordic flora is rich in CWRs, especially in wild relatives to forages and berries, and several crop species in these groups have a large part of their genetic diversity originating from our countries. Even if many globally important crops originate from other regions, we can find close relatives to these in our Nordic flora, e.g. widely used vegetables and some cereals.