Simple Summary Many crops including wheat have a narrow genetic base after hundreds of
years of breeding and selection. This makes it difficult to breed new varieties with increased …

At the turn of 2000 many authors envisioned future plant breeding. Twenty years after, which
of those authors' visions became reality or not, and which ones may become so in the years …

Climate change is a defining challenge of the 21st century, and this decade is a critical time
for action to mitigate the worst effects on human populations and ecosystems. Plant science …

Plant domestication and crop improvement have resulted in reduced genetic diversity in
most of our cultivated crops, thus limiting their potential to adapt to future challenges (Byrne …

Representative, broad and diverse collections are a primary resource to dissect genetic
diversity and meet pre-breeding and breeding goals through the identification of beneficial …

Highlights•Climate change has a significant impact on the plant immune system.•Pan-
genomes of crop species likely hold important alleles for climate and disease …

Crop failure is largely caused by various climate hazards, and among them, heat stress is
the primary factor hindering crop production. The significant global loss of crop yield is …

The Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project set out to improve the diversity, quantity,
and accessibility of germplasm collections of crop wild relatives (CWR). Between 2013 and …

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are a good source of useful alleles for climate change adaptation.
Here, 19 durum wheat, 24 barley, and 24 lentil elites incorporating CWR in their pedigrees …

Key message We present a comprehensive survey of cytogenetic and genomic diversity of
the GGA t A t genepool of wheat, thereby unlocking these plant genetic resources for wheat …