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The importance of interspecific hybridization in crop improvement varies greatly from one crop to another (Stalker, 1980; Prescott-Allen and Prescott-Allen, 1988). In tomato, virtually all cultivars grown on a commercial scale anywhere in the world carry resistance to Fusarium wilt introduced from one wild species (Goodman et al., 1987), while six others are sources of characters ranging from salt tolerance to insect resistance. In the faba bean, on the other hand, improvement has come about entirely through crossing and selection within Vicia faba. It has not yet been possible to introduce genes from any other species into this crop. Whether fertile interspecific hybrids can or cannot be produced easily will influence the attitude of breeders of a crop to the use of alien germplasm.
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Pickersgill, B. (1993). Interspecific hybridization by sexual means. In: Hayward, M.D., Bosemark, N.O., Romagosa, I., Cerezo, M. (eds) Plant Breeding. Plant Breeding Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1524-7_6
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