Assessing and Exploiting Functional Diversity in Germplasm Pools to Enhance Abiotic Stress Adaptation and Yield in Cereals and Food Legumes

There is a need to accelerate crop improvement by introducing alleles conferring host plant resistance, abiotic stress adaptation, and high yield potential. Elite cultivars, landraces and wild relatives harbor useful genetic variation that needs to be more easily utilized in plant breeding. We revie...

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Main Authors: Sangam L. Dwivedi, Armin Scheben, David Edwards, Charles Spillane, Rodomiro Ortiz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.01461/full