“…A primary goal of the core collection is the effective utilization of available genetic resources (Odong et al., 2013; van Hintum et al., 2000). To date, several core collections have been developed from diverse crop taxa, including peanut (Holbrook et al., 1993), annual Medicago (Diwan et al., 1994), Capsicum (Zewdie et al., 2004), safflower (Dwivedi et al., 2005), pearl millet (Bhattacharjee et al., 2006), cowpea (Mahalakshmi et al., 2007), wild mustard (Zhao et al., 2010), rice (S. Kumar et al., 2020; H. Zhang et al., 2011), Australian bermudagrass (Jewell et al., 2012), cotton (Egan et al., 2022), soybeans (N. Jeong et al., 2019; Nair et al., 2022), and Brassica (Witzel et al., 2021). A core collection also provides opportunities for marker development, phytochemical profiling, and gene discovery.…”