wild relatives

collocation in English

meaningsofwildandrelative

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wild
adjective
uk
/waɪld/us
/waɪld/
uncontrolled, violent, ...
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relative
noun[C]
uk
/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
a member of ...
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(Definition ofwildandrelativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, 13 of the markers transferred and produced a band in all thewildrelativeaccessions in this study.
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Two main clades were produced consisting of the botanical varieties and the other clade consisted of wild relatives.
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Reflecting the recent focus of research, about half the book is occupied with studies of introgression between conventional crops and their cross-compatible wild relatives.
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These species complexes behave as weeds and can be detected in the margins of cassava plantations if these are near wild relatives.
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A rapid method of evaluating growth rate in pearl millet and its weedy and wild relatives.
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Numerous studies have examined changes in diversity between wild relatives and domesticated grass species.
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Wild relatives of wheat carry a reservoir of useful genes which probably can be exploited for reducing aphid damage in wheat.
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There has been roughly a 30 % drop in diversity at the average locus from maize's wild relatives.
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The latter is more likely to happen if transgenic crops are introduced in areas close to their wild relatives.
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The collection contains landraces from traditional productive regions but also obsolete crop varieties and wild relatives.
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Relative to other grasses, maize and its wild relatives appear to have high levels of genetic diversity, which is probably the result of high levels of outcrossing.
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In addition, incentives are needed to encourage firms to develop transgenic crops, recombinant technologies, and/or management regimes that would make outcrossing of beneficial genes to wild relatives less likely.
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Many crops have wild relatives and can cross-pollinate.
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The society said that the likelihood of gene transfer to wild relatives depends on the species of crop and the location in which the crop will be grown.
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The genetic diversity of the crop wild relatives of wheat can be used to improve modern varieties to be more resistant to rust.
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His target was to increase the wheat gene pool by making the variation in wild relatives available to wheat breeders.
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Populations of wild relatives of cereal crops that occur in arid or semi-arid lands are being severely reduced by over grazing and resulting desertification.
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This includes 533 endemic species, 230 red-listed species, 1559 species of medicinal plants and 260 species of wild relatives of cultivated plant.
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However, most attention in this field is given to crop varieties and to crop wild relatives.
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This allows one to locate wild relatives, related species, and new genes (especially dominant genes, which may provide resistance to diseases).
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