Building a feral future: Open questions in crop ferality
Societal Impact Statement Given the rapidly increasing drought and temperature stresses associated with climate change, innovative approaches for food security are imperative. One understudied opportunity is using feral crops—plants that have escaped and persisted without cultivation—as a source of...
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| author | Makenzie E. Mabry Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan James M. Bullock Hongru Wang Ana L. Caicedo Clemon J. Dabney Emily B. M. Drummond Emma Frawley Jonathan Gressel Brian C. Husband Amy Lawton‐Rauh Lorenzo Maggioni Kenneth M. Olsen Claudio Pandolfo J. Chris Pires Michael T. Pisias Hamid Razifard Douglas E. Soltis Pamela S. Soltis Sofía Tillería Soledad Ureta Emily Warschefsky Alex C. McAlvay |
| author_facet | Makenzie E. Mabry Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan James M. Bullock Hongru Wang Ana L. Caicedo Clemon J. Dabney Emily B. M. Drummond Emma Frawley Jonathan Gressel Brian C. Husband Amy Lawton‐Rauh Lorenzo Maggioni Kenneth M. Olsen Claudio Pandolfo J. Chris Pires Michael T. Pisias Hamid Razifard Douglas E. Soltis Pamela S. Soltis Sofía Tillería Soledad Ureta Emily Warschefsky Alex C. McAlvay |
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| description | Societal Impact Statement Given the rapidly increasing drought and temperature stresses associated with climate change, innovative approaches for food security are imperative. One understudied opportunity is using feral crops—plants that have escaped and persisted without cultivation—as a source of genetic diversity, which could build resilience in domesticated conspecifics. In some cases, however, feral plants vigorously compete with crops as weeds, challenging food security. By bridging historically siloed ecological, agronomic, and evolutionary lines of inquiry into feral crops, there is the opportunity to improve food security and understand this relatively understudied anthropogenic phenomenon. Summary The phenomenon of feral crops, that is, free‐living populations that have established outside cultivation, is understudied. Some researchers focus on the negative consequences of domestication, whereas others assert that feral populations may serve as useful pools of genetic diversity for future crop improvement. Although research on feral crops and the process of feralization has advanced rapidly in the last two decades, generalizable insights have been limited by a lack of comparative research across crop species and other factors. To improve international coordination of research on this topic, we summarize the current state of feralization research and chart a course for future study by consolidating outstanding questions in the field. These questions, which emerged from the colloquium “Darwins' reversals: What we now know about Feralization and Crop Wild Relatives” at the BOTANY 2021 conference, fall into seven categories that span both basic and applied research: (1) definitions and drivers of ferality, (2) genetic architecture and pathway, (3) evolutionary history and biogeography, (4) agronomy and breeding, (5) fundamental and applied ecology, (6) collecting and conservation, and (7) taxonomy and best practices. These questions serve as a basis for ferality researchers to coordinate research in these areas, potentially resulting in major contributions to food security in the face of climate change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-16f20ec64d314711802ad0ca0343ff052023-08-23T03:19:50ZengWileyPlants, People, Planet2572-26112023-09-015563564910.1002/ppp3.10367Building a feral future: Open questions in crop feralityMakenzie E. Mabry0Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan1James M. Bullock2Hongru Wang3Ana L. Caicedo4Clemon J. Dabney5Emily B. M. Drummond6Emma Frawley7Jonathan Gressel8Brian C. Husband9Amy Lawton‐Rauh10Lorenzo Maggioni11Kenneth M. Olsen12Claudio Pandolfo13J. Chris Pires14Michael T. Pisias15Hamid Razifard16Douglas E. Soltis17Pamela S. Soltis18Sofía Tillería19Soledad Ureta20Emily Warschefsky21Alex C. McAlvay22Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville Florida USADepartment of Soil and Crop Sciences Texas A&M University, College Station Texas USAUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford UKDepartment of Integrative Biology University of California Berkeley California USADepartment of Biology University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts USADepartment of Plant & Microbial Biology University of Minnesota Saint Paul Minnesota USADepartment of Botany University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia CanadaDepartment of Biology Washington University St. Louis Missouri USADepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences Weizmann Institute of Science IsraelDepartment of Integrative Biology University of Guelph Guelph Ontario CanadaDepartment of Genetics and Biochemistry Clemson University Clemson South Carolina USAEuropean Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) ℅ Bioversity International Rome ItalyDepartment of Biology Washington University St. Louis Missouri USADepartamento de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahía Blanca ArgentinaColorado State University Fort Collins Colorado USADivision of Plant Sciences University of Missouri Columbia Missouri USASchool of Integrative Plant Science Plant Biology Cornell University Ithaca New York USAFlorida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville Florida USAFlorida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville Florida USADepartamento de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahía Blanca ArgentinaDepartamento de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahía Blanca ArgentinaWilliam L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden St. Louis Missouri USAInstitute of Economic Botany New York Botanical Garden Bronx New York USASocietal Impact Statement Given the rapidly increasing drought and temperature stresses associated with climate change, innovative approaches for food security are imperative. One understudied opportunity is using feral crops—plants that have escaped and persisted without cultivation—as a source of genetic diversity, which could build resilience in domesticated conspecifics. In some cases, however, feral plants vigorously compete with crops as weeds, challenging food security. By bridging historically siloed ecological, agronomic, and evolutionary lines of inquiry into feral crops, there is the opportunity to improve food security and understand this relatively understudied anthropogenic phenomenon. Summary The phenomenon of feral crops, that is, free‐living populations that have established outside cultivation, is understudied. Some researchers focus on the negative consequences of domestication, whereas others assert that feral populations may serve as useful pools of genetic diversity for future crop improvement. Although research on feral crops and the process of feralization has advanced rapidly in the last two decades, generalizable insights have been limited by a lack of comparative research across crop species and other factors. To improve international coordination of research on this topic, we summarize the current state of feralization research and chart a course for future study by consolidating outstanding questions in the field. These questions, which emerged from the colloquium “Darwins' reversals: What we now know about Feralization and Crop Wild Relatives” at the BOTANY 2021 conference, fall into seven categories that span both basic and applied research: (1) definitions and drivers of ferality, (2) genetic architecture and pathway, (3) evolutionary history and biogeography, (4) agronomy and breeding, (5) fundamental and applied ecology, (6) collecting and conservation, and (7) taxonomy and best practices. These questions serve as a basis for ferality researchers to coordinate research in these areas, potentially resulting in major contributions to food security in the face of climate change.https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10367cropscultivationdomesticationferalizationgenetic resourcesplant breeding |
| spellingShingle | Makenzie E. Mabry Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan James M. Bullock Hongru Wang Ana L. Caicedo Clemon J. Dabney Emily B. M. Drummond Emma Frawley Jonathan Gressel Brian C. Husband Amy Lawton‐Rauh Lorenzo Maggioni Kenneth M. Olsen Claudio Pandolfo J. Chris Pires Michael T. Pisias Hamid Razifard Douglas E. Soltis Pamela S. Soltis Sofía Tillería Soledad Ureta Emily Warschefsky Alex C. McAlvay Building a feral future: Open questions in crop ferality Plants, People, Planet crops cultivation domestication feralization genetic resources plant breeding |
| title | Building a feral future: Open questions in crop ferality |
| title_full | Building a feral future: Open questions in crop ferality |
| title_fullStr | Building a feral future: Open questions in crop ferality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building a feral future: Open questions in crop ferality |
| title_short | Building a feral future: Open questions in crop ferality |
| title_sort | building a feral future open questions in crop ferality |
| topic | crops cultivation domestication feralization genetic resources plant breeding |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10367 |
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