Climate change conditions the selection of rust-resistant candidate wild lentil populations for in situ conservation
Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science
Year: 2022

Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) are a valuable source of genetic diversity that can be transferred to commercial crops, so their conservation will become a priority in the face of climate change. Bizarrely, <i>in situ</i> conserved CWR populations and the traits one might wish to preserve in them are themselves vulnerable to climate change. In this study, we used a quantitative machine learning predictive approach to project the resistance of CWR populations of lentils to a common disease, lentil rust