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We have seen that over the past 60 years our knowledge of Beta maritima has grown tremendously. Its importance as a genetic resource in the breeding of sugar beet and other cultivated beet crops has become recognized. Nonetheless, only in the last 30 years has there been a coordinated effort to conserve sea beet germplasm. The international database for Beta lists more than 11,500 Beta/Patellifolia accessions in 33 gene banks worldwide. Many accessions likely are cultivated beets, but a substantial number are B. maritima. However, because species evolution no longer takes place in an ex situ gene bank collection, there is no further adaptation to their natural environment. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in providing in situ conservation of beet wild relatives in general, and B. maritima in particular. If the concerns with growing genetically modified sugar beet can be satisfied, the potential is large, but even so sea beet provides a reservoir of genetic resources to continue the battle against pest and pathogens of cultivated beet. Whatever the effects of global climate change may prove to be, it is likely that the superior genetic diversity in sea beet will provide the genetic traits necessary to maintain the performance of our crop plants in a changing environment.

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  1. Rovigo Station, Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA), Rome, Italy

    Enrico Biancardi

  2. Crop Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Leonard W. Panella Ph.D.

  3. Crop Improvement & Protection Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Salinas, CA, USA

    Robert T. Lewellen Ph.D.

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Biancardi, E., Panella, L.W., Lewellen, R.T. (2012). The Future. In: Beta maritima. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0842-0_8

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