Editorial: Harnessing genebanks: High-throughput phenotyping and genotyping of crop wild relatives and landraces

Andrés J Cortés; Jinyoung Y Barnaby

doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1149469

Editorial: Harnessing genebanks: High-throughput phenotyping and genotyping of crop wild relatives and landraces

Front Plant Sci. 2023 Mar 10:14:1149469. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1149469. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Andrés J Cortés¹, Jinyoung Y Barnaby²

Affiliations

¹ Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA, C.I. La Selva, Rionegro, Colombia.
² U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. National Arboretum, Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, Beltsville, MD, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: adaptation; elite varieties; ex situ conservation; exotic variation; food security; germplasm; polygenic variation; pre-breeding.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

Vetenskapsrådet (grants 2016-00418 and 2022-04411), Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien (grant BS20170036), and the British Council (grant 527023146) are deeply acknowledged for funding AJC as PI during the conception and execution of this Research Topic. The Graduate Research School in Genomic Ecology (GENECO) from Lund University is also recognized for the mobility funding that assisted the synergistic meeting between AC and M.W. Blair in the spring of 2015 at Nashville, TN, United States. Fulbright U.S. Specialist Program is thanked for supporting M.W. Blair’s visit to AC in Rionegro (Antioquia, Colombia) in the summer of 2019. Both encounters ultimately laid the conceptual foundations of this Research Topic.