Desalegn Chala‡, Erik Kusch‡, Claus Weiland§, Carrie Andrew‡, Jonas Grieb§, Tuomas Rossi|, Tomas Martinovic¶, Dag Endresen‡Corresponding author: Desalegn Chala ( desdchala@gmail.com ) © Desalegn Chala, Erik Kusch, Claus Weiland, Carrie Andrew, Jonas Grieb, Tuomas Rossi, Tomas Martinovic, Dag Endresen. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Chala D, Kusch E, Weiland C, Andrew C, Grieb J, Rossi T, Martinovic T, Endresen D (2024) Prototype Biodiversity Digital Twin: Crop Wild Relatives Genetic Resources for Food Security. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e125091 |  |
Amidst population growth and climate-driven crop stresses, ensuring food security demands innovative strategies. Crop wild relatives (CWR), wild plants in the same genus as the crop, offer novel genetic resources crucial for enhancing crop resilience. Here, we introduce a prototype digital twin (pDT) to aid in searching and utilising CWR genetic resources. Leveraging the MoDGP (Modeling the Germplasm of Interest) tool, the pDT enables mapping geographic areas where stress-tolerant CWR populations can be found. With its graphical user interface, it offers flexibility in selecting genetic resources from CWR tailored to enhance resilience of various crops against diverse stress factors.