Wild taxa are invaluable sources of resistance to diseases, insects/ pests, nematodes, temperature extremes, salinity and alkalinity stresses, and also of nutri

"Compilation of lead lectures given by eminent scientists covering distant hybridisation working on various horticultural crops during the seminar on "Distant H

Global climate is considered to be biggest challenge to the agricultural/horticultural scientists because of the need for development of climate resilient crop

Many of our current agricultural crops are natural or agricultural hybrids (between two or more species), or polyploids (containing more than one genome or set