"All crops routinely face threats from plant pests, disease, or shifting weather patterns, and a country's ability to breed new varieties to overcome these challenges is directly tied to what they have in the bank, not just in terms of financial resources but in terms of the diversity in their crop collections".
Clearly large crop collections cannot be sequenced in one draft.
Seeds of field pea were obtained from the Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection (ATFCC) held at the Department of Primary Industries, Horsham, Victoria, Australia.
Seed samples were procured from the Australian National Brassica Germplasm Improvement Programs (Wagga Wagga and Horsham) and Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection, Horsham.
The authors thank Prof. Dr. Christian Jung (Plant Breeding Institute, University of Kiel, Germany) for supporting the repeated experiments and thank Dr. Bob Redden (Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection, ATFCC) for providing the seeds of two B. napus cv.
Seeds of most of the B. napus and B. rapa accessions were obtained from the Chinese Crop Germplasms Information System (CGRIS, a germplasm repository for collecting worldwide genetic resource of oilseed crop) and seeds of the two LEA ancestor cultivars, 'Liho' and 'Oro', were obtained from the Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection (ATFCC).
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In accordance with expanding cash crops, the collection of wild products has also become more commercialized, with rich households often maintaining controls over collection/trade of key products (McElwee 2008; Sikor and To 2011; Tran et al. 2013b).
Our goal was to identify which analytical methods perform best in discovering genes controlling complex traits in crop germplasm collections so that allelic diversity can be mined most efficiently.
Over the last few years, there has been renewed interest in the study of naturally occurring variation in crop genetic collections.
