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landrace diversity empowers wheat breedingHomepage | University of Bristol
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At least 60% of the genetic diversity found in a historic collection of wheat is unused providing an unprecedented opportunity to improve modern wheat and sustainably feed an increasing global population.
Researchers at the University of Bristol contributed by developing a new genotyping chip to track these new genetic variants as they cross-breed them into UK varieties in the future.
A core set of 119 landraces represented the breadth of the genetic variation within the Watkins collection.
This diversity set was then crossed and back crossed them into modern wheat to make a collection of 12,000 lines of wheat that are now stored in the Germplasm Resource Unit at the John Innes Centre .
This means that for the first time in 100 years these lost traits have been incorporated in modern wheat.
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