Zamir D
Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Nat Rev Genet. 2001 Dec;2(12):983-9. doi: 10.1038/35103590.
Naturally occurring variation among wild relatives of cultivated crops is an under-exploited resource in plant breeding. Here, I argue that exotic libraries, which consist of marker-defined genomic regions taken from wild species and introgressed onto the background of elite crop lines, provide plant breeders with an important opportunity to improve the agricultural performance of modern crop varieties. These libraries can also act as reagents for the discovery and characterization of genes that underlie traits of agricultural value.
栽培作物野生近缘种中自然存在的变异是植物育种中尚未充分利用的资源。在此，我认为，由取自野生物种并导入优良作物品系背景的标记定义基因组区域组成的外来文库，为植物育种者提供了一个改善现代作物品种农业性能的重要机会。这些文库还可作为发现和鉴定具有农业价值性状潜在基因的试剂。
