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Several wild accessions of Brassica rapa maintained high biomass under drought and fully recovered maximum assimilation rate after rewatering.
- Why it matters: Drought threatens food security, yet it is unclear how wild crop relatives compare in drought coping capacity, limiting how effectively their diversity can be used for climate-resilient breeding.
- What they did: Twenty-five Brassica rapa accessions spanning wild, feral, and domesticated types were exposed to experimental drought and recovery, with biomass retention, photosynthetic rate, and water use efficiency measured.
- The result: Taproot biomass was positively associated with water use efficiency, and the wild performance challenges the idea that feralization inherently yields stress-resilient phenotypes.
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