Harnessing Crop Wild Relatives for Crop Improvement

Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are the potential source of novel traits and genetic variation in food crops with narrow genetic base. CWRs include immediate progenitor of crop species and other species of plants which are closer to them in near evolutionary history. CWRs are the sources of novel alleles for several important traits of nutritional and agronomical importance. With ever increasing innovations in the field of genomics science, hope to harness the potential of CWR has grown up to new heights.