Cac-bIoDiversity.org
About Cac-bIoDiversity.org
With the world’s population rising and an unacceptably high number of people living in poverty—especially in the world’s dry marginal areas—plant breeders are under increasing pressure to produce a steady stream of improved crop varieties that yield well, have good quality, and resist diseases, insects, and other stresses. To do this, breeders need to tap the genes found in ancient crop cultivars and their wild relatives.
