Rewilding crops for climate resilience: economic analysis and de novo domestication strategies

• Published in: Journal of experimental botany Vol. 72; no. 18; pp. 6123 - 6139
• Main Authors: Razzaq, Ali, Wani, Shabir Hussain, Saleem, Fozia, Yu, Min, Zhou, Meixue, Shabala, Sergey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UK Oxford University Press 30.09.2021
• Subjects: salinity; Abiotic stress; drought; wild relatives; food security; flooding; breeding; population growth

This work analyzes the economic cost of global climate changes on crop productivity and argues for a broader use of wild relatives to improve crop stress resilience lost during domestication. Abstract To match predicted population growth, annual food production should be doubled by 2050. This is not...