Therefore, the department concluded, the new genes would not be enough to turn wild relatives into superweeds.

In 2010, the Trust launched a global 10-year program to find, gather, catalog and save the wild relatives of 22 major food crops.

He has spent 25 years collecting crop plants and their wild relatives in tropical America.

However, most attention in this field is given to crop varieties and to crop wild relatives.

Otherwise, they may contaminate other crops, wild relatives and the environment.

Many of them are also, like their wild relatives, comparatively blight resistant.

Almost got killed by one of their wild relatives once.

Domesticated plant species often differ from their wild relatives in predictable ways.

There was a scream or two which must have come from Lura's wild relatives and she growled in answer.

They include the familiar domestic cat and its closest wild relatives.