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Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

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Plant domestication and crop evolution are the basis of agriculture. Their understanding, facilitated by research with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) markers, provides further knowledge to use the available genetic endowments held at genebanks in plant breeding. Collecting plant genetic resources, characterizing, evaluating and documenting them, plus their further propagation for ex situ conservation and distribution are among the most important activities of genebanks. Appropriate sampling of genebank accessions helps the management and utilization of a germplasm collection. Germplasm enhancement (or pre-breeding) assists to identify a useful trait, “capture” its genetic diversity, and to put them into a “usable” form.

“If an allele is consistently rare, how likely is to be useful?”

Robert W. Allard †, Univ. of California, Davis

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Ortiz Ríos, R. (2015). Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. In: Plant Breeding in the Omics Era. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20532-8_2

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