Blueprints for sustainable plant production through the utilization of crop wild relatives and their microbiomes.

Colin K Khoury, Susan R McCouch, Loren H Rieseberg, Peter Langridge, Susannah G Tringe, Davide Francioli, Muhammad Waqas, Christoph-Martin Geilfus, Daniele Manzella, Hannes Dempewolf

Journal: Nature communications 2025;16(1):6364

PMID: 40640143

Abstract

Conserving crop wild relatives (CWR) in their natural environments, together with the complex communities of microorganisms that live with them, could lay the foundation to unlock novel mechanisms for crop resilience and new strategies for achieving food security.

© 2025. The Author(s).

Address: Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany.; State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China.; Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics (retired), School of Integrated Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.; Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany. [email protected].; Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.; Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy.; New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY, USA.; Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.; Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn, Germany.; Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Göteborg, Sweden.; School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Campus, University of Adelaide, PMB1, Glen Osmond, SA, Australia.; Wheat Initiative, Julius Kuehn Institute, Berlin, Germany.; Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany. [email protected].
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