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It has been remarked many times that we really know very little about the ancestors of our cultivated species. I will quote two statements by Harlan (1975):
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‘In almost no crop do we have a large collection of wild relatives available in anticipation of need’.
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‘The study of the origin and evolution of cultivated plants is not only a work of intellectual and academic interest to the evolutionist, but a matter of enormous practical urgency in those crops that carry the burden of supporting the human population’.
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Cubero, J.I. (1984). Utilization of Wild Relatives and Primitive Forms of Food Legumes. In: Witcombe, J.R., Erskine, W. (eds) Genetic Resources and Their Exploitation — Chickpeas, Faba beans and Lentils. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6131-9_7
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