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The 20 pages that link to Crop wild relatives, each with the reason it gives.

• Plant breedingRelated: They provide genetic sources for traits absent from current crop varieties.

• Plant domesticationNarrower topic: Wild relatives can cross with crops and provide traits selected during domestication or later breeding.

• Seed bankRelated: Stored wild relatives can supply traits for breeding more resilient crops.

• IntrogressionRelated: Plant breeders use crosses and backcrosses to move traits from wild relatives into crops.

• Agricultural biodiversityBroader topic: Wild relatives preserve traits that cultivated crops may have lost.

• BrassicaRelated: Wild Brassica relatives preserve traits that cultivation may have reduced.

• LandraceRelated: Wild relatives can contribute traits that landraces carry or that breeders introduce into them.

• Rice domesticationRelated: Wild relatives provide evidence about rice ancestry and the traits altered in cultivation.

• Domestication of CapsicumNarrower topic: Identifying Capsicum wild relatives is essential for testing crop ancestry and domestication routes.

• Plant-herbivore interactionsRelated: They can provide inherited defenses against herbivores to cultivated varieties.

• GermplasmRelated: Wild relatives can supply germplasm with traits absent from cultivated varieties.

• Oryza glaberrimaRelated: Oryza barthii illustrates the wild relatives that preserve traits related to African rice.

• Nikolai VavilovRelated: Wild relatives helped reveal the diversity and ancestry of crops Vavilov studied.

• OryzaNarrower topic: Wild Oryza species are relatives of rice crops and sources of useful variation.

• EinkornRelated: Wild relatives of einkorn can provide genetic resources for wheat research and breeding.

• EmmerRelated: Wild relatives of emmer wheat can provide traits for crop improvement.

• Finger milletRelated: Wild Eleusine relatives preserve diversity relevant to finger millet improvement.

• Malus sieversiiNarrower topic: Malus sieversii is a prominent wild relative of the cultivated apple.

• Vigna aconitifoliaRelated: Wild Vigna relatives may offer traits for improving moth bean’s resilience and yield.

• Cucumis metuliferusRelated: Wild populations can preserve genetic diversity relevant to cultivation.