Table 1.

Examples of wild relatives used to enhance abiotic stress tolerance in cultivated crops

Crop	More resilient wild species	Trait of interest	Reference
Wheat	Aegilops cylindrica	Drought	Pour-Aboughadareh et al. (2017)
	Ae. crassa
	Ae. caudata
	Triticum urartu
	T. monococcum	Heat	Khanna-Chopra and Viswanathan (1999); Peng et al. (2013); El Haddad et al. (2021)
	T. dicoccoides
	Ae. speltoides ssp. liqustica
	T. ararticum
	Ae. speltoides	Salinity	Ahmadi et al. (2018)
	Ae. caudata
	Ae. cylindrica
	T. boeoticum
Sorghum	Sorghum macrospermum	Drought	Cowan et al. (2020)
	S. brachypodum		Ochieng et al. (2020)
	S. arundinaceum
	S. sudanense
	S. purpureosericeum
Banana	Musa balbisiana;	Drought	Eyland et al. (2022)
	M. acuminata ssp. errans
Rice	Oryza rufipogon	Salinity	Tin et al. (2021)
	O. nivara; O. coarctata		Zhang and Xie (2014)
	O. nivara; O. rufipogon	Flooding	Niroula et al. (2012)
	O. meridionalis Ng.	Heat	Scafaro et al. (2012); Scafaro et al. (2016); Scafaro et al. (2018)
	O. australiensis
Maize	Zea nicaraguensis	Flooding	Mano et al. (2006);
	Z. luxurians		Mano et al. (2005);
	Z. mays ssp. huehuetenangensis
	Z. diploperennis	Drought	Shaibu et al. (2021)
Tomato	Solanum cheesmaniae;	Salinity	Dehan and Tal (1978); Shalata and Tal (1998); Mittova et al. (2002); Frary et al. (2010); Pailles et al. (2020)
	S. pennellii
	S. galapagense
	S. pimpinellifolium	Heat	Driedonks (2018)
Tepary bean	Wild Phaseolus acutifolius	Drought	Buitrago-Bitar et al. (2021)
Adzuki bean	Vigna nakashimae; V. riukiensis	Salinity	Yoshida et al. (2016)
Eggplant	Solanum insanum	Salinity	Brenes et al. 2020)
Chickpea	Cicer reticulatum	Drought	Moenga et al. (2020)
Sugarcane	Saccharum spontaneum	Salinity	Kasirajan et al. (2021)