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Problems of the conservation and use of plant resources in the context of climate change and socioeconomic challenges are considered. Particular attention is paid to the conservation of crop wild relatives and traditional crop varieties as sources of genetic diversity, which had been lost by the modern gene pool of cultivated plants first in the process of domestication and then during the introduction of intensive varieties into production.
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This study was supported within the state budget, project no. 0662-2019-0005.
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Elena Konstantinovna Khlestkina, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), is Director of the Vavilov All-Russia Institute of Plant Genetic Resources. Irena Georgievna Chukhina, Cand. Sci. (Biol.), is a Leading Researcher at the same institute.
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Khlestkina, E.K., Chukhina, I.G. Genetic Resources of Plants: The Conservation and Use Strategy in the 21st Century. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 90, 298–302 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331620030089
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