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Role of Wild Relatives for Development of Climate-Resilient Varieties

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Climate change is a hot topic nowadays, and its impact on agriculture and related fields makes the scientific community to work toward innovating new technologies which proves resilient during fluctuations in climate. Climate resilience can be generally defined as the capacity for a socio-ecological system to absorb stresses and maintain function in the face of external stresses imposed upon it by climate change and to adapt, reorganize, and evolve into more desirable configurations that improve the sustainability of the system, leaving it better prepared for future climate change impacts. Climate changes possess a severe effect on plant genetic resources and wild plant species. These wild species are the rich source of novel alleles for biotic and abiotic stress resistance which can be used to develop varieties with superior traits. Thus, understanding of anomalies in climatic variables is essential to make the agriculture sector climate resilient. Thus, future crop species will need to be able to thrive in a drier, warmer, and more variable and extreme climatic conditions. To meet these challenges, plant breeders need to exploit genetic diversity available in the form of germplasm, landraces, and wild or weedy forms. Some of the genetic diversity may be found in landraces, traditional/farmer’s varieties that are still being cultivated by farmers around the world. However, a much wider spectrum of biodiversity is found in wild plant species that are closely related to domesticated crops. They are of key importance to breeding crops for adaptation to climate changes.

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Abbreviations

CWR:

Crop wild relatives

CO2:

Carbon dioxide

GHGs:

Greenhouse gases

GPS:

Global positioning system

GWAS:

Genome-wide association studies

MAS:

Marker-assisted selection

IPCC:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

PGR:

Plant genetic resources

QTL:

Quantitative trait loci

SNP:

Single nucleotide sequence

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  1. School of Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Manmohan Sharma &  Punya

  2. Division of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Bharat Bhushan Gupta

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    Romesh Kumar Salgotra

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Sharma, M., Punya, Gupta, B.B. (2020). Role of Wild Relatives for Development of Climate-Resilient Varieties. In: Salgotra, R., Zargar, S. (eds) Rediscovery of Genetic and Genomic Resources for Future Food Security. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0156-2_11

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