BusinessGreen: Preserving the wild relatives of some of the world's most popular crop plants such as wheat, potato, rice and sugarcane, could be worth up to $196bn (128bn) to the economy.
That is the conclusion of a report commissioned by Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, which warns that many of the wild varieties of our most important food crops that can be used to boost agriculture, are at risk of dying out.
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) can be cross bred with existing crop varieties to help produce higher yields...