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

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Editorial on the Research TopicHarnessing genebanks: High-throughput phenotyping and genotyping of crop wild relatives and landraces Crop wild relatives are feasible sources for novel genetic and phenotypic variation (Bohra et al., 2021), as exemplified by Inagaki et al. The team demonstrated that a rice (Oryza sativa L.) near-isogenic line (NIL) that carries a genomic segment on chromosome seven from a Thai O. rufipogon CWR, narrowed by marker-assisted selection from a BC 4 F 2 generation, is able to capture an optimum spectrum of plant shapes for sunlight receiving efficiency, whichFrontiers in Plant Science frontiersin.org 01

‘Omics’ Approaches for Crop Improvement

“…A long-standing research gap in phenomic screening is its factual implementation in crop wild gene pools [28], which typically exhibit more environmentally dependent trait segregation [29,30]. Fortunately, in this collection, two studies have harnessed cropwild diversity through phenomics.…”