Abstract: Plant breeding programmes are under tremendous pressure to breed for better crop varieties to cop up with increased demand for food coming from rapid and exponential increase of the population. Wild relatives of crop plants have always been source of important breeding traits. Feeble studies have been conducted to document this rich source of genes in Palakkad despite the efforts of NBPGR. In this context we have undertook a pilot study to document the wild relatives of crop plants of Palakkad district and also enable to understand wild relatives of some commonly cultivated plants. The study reflects that future plant breeding experiments can rely be conducted to improve the crop plants and there by enhance the germplasm on these rich source of useful traits for the production of improved varieties.
Keywords: Wild relatives, Cultivated plants, Palakkad, Kerala.
Title: Comparison on the Wild Relatives of Some Cultivated Plants of Palakkad District, Kerala
Author: Neena A, Mahesh Mohanan P, Resmi M.S, Binu Thomas
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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