Sentences with phrase «collected wild relatives»
But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.
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Wild relatives of crops could be better suited to harsher climes, but efforts to collect and breed such crops are just beginning.
Collecting crop wild relatives will require a massive global effort, the researchers suggest.
tomato collected during a recent outbreak of bacterial speck disease in New York; and 2) Identifying and characterizing immunity - associated genes from wild relatives of tomato.