Cross breeding wild vegetables with their cultivated counterparts on the farm could create a hybrid super veggie resilient to pests and disease.

It’s a very worldwide plan; the countries that have the very best variety of untamed plant cousins ar Brazil, China, and India, whereas the countries with the very best concentration of them ar Azerbajdzhan Republic, Portuguese Republic and Hellenic Republic. the advantages that this cross-breeding programme might have in developing countries specially may be indispensable as world increase reaches over 9 billion.
However, despite this world unfold of crop wild relatives, they’re being vulnerable by a large array of environmental antagonists. Most of those ar right down to humanity’s intrusion, be it through land-use amendment, heating, pollution, war and also the intensification of agriculture. The Millennium Seed Bank of the Royal biological science Gardens, Kew, is functioning aboard partners that run breeding programmes round the world and save these hearty wild cousins within the next many years.