ABSTRACT

The other chapters in this book demonstrate the vast array of systems that plants utilize to evolve endoferality and exoferality, and mixtures between the two. This chapter presents short case histories of other crop species that extend this biodiverse array and accentuates other issues and implications that may derive from ferality. Clearly, other cases could be added to this, as many as there are additional other crops, but the idea is not to be exhaustive. Our intent is to supply a feeling of further issues and to provide parameters that must be discerned when analyzing the potential problems, if any, that may arise when a given crop becomes a persistent volunteer or introgresses genes from a wild relative.