Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their
wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double
rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to
expand its silk industry. A wild carp with resistance to cold has
been used to extend Soviet carp production further into the north.
Wild genetic resources - the heritable characteristics of wild
plants and animals - are used increasingly to improve domesticated
crops and livestock and as new sources of food and of raw
materials. But habitat destruction, over-exploitation and
competition from introduced species is destroying many gene pools
even before they have been identified. Genes from the Wild
describes the growing contribution of wild genetic resources to the
production of food and raw materials, describes their
characteristics, explains the benefits and problems of using them
and outlines the ways in which they are threatened and the measures
being taken to conserve them. Originally published in 1988
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