Wild relatives of eggplant (Solanum melongena) are interest for breeding tolerance to drought. To assess the potential wild from different gene pools, 18 accessions belonging and eight were evaluated water stress tolerance. Plants grown in pots normally irrigated or subjected by stopping irrigation. Growth biochemical parameters related oxidative stress, including proline, malondialdehyde (MDA)...

The Research Institute for Plant Genetic Resources is the national center global genetic resources of cultivated plants and their wild relatives, which are preserved in form collections status, represented by seeds, vegetative reproductive organs parts plants, herbarium specimens, as well plantations perennial crops. Collections numbering more than 43 thousand accessions concentrated here over ...

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are a good source of useful alleles for climate change adaptation. Here, 19 durum wheat, 24 barley, and lentil elites incorporating CWR in their pedigrees were yield tested against commercial checks across environments located Morocco, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Senegal. For each crop, the combined analysis variance showed that genotype (G), environment (E), x (G×E) effects si...

Domestication and cultivar differentiation are requisite processes for establishing cultivated crops. These processes inherently involve substantial changes in population structure, including those from artificial selection of key genes. In this study, accessions of peach (Prunus persica) and its wild relatives were analysed genome-wide to identify changes in genetic structures and gene selecti...

Lentils (Lens sp.) are one of the main sources protein for humans in many regions, part because their rusticity allows them to withstand semi-dry climates and tolerate a wide spectrum pests. Both also highly sought-after attributes face climate change. Wild accessions, rather than cultivated varieties, typically holders most influential alleles traits. However, genomic transcriptomic research c...