Crop Science special issue: Adapting agriculture to climate change: A walk on the wild side

Plant domestication and crop improvement have resulted in reduced genetic diversity in most of our cultivated crops, thus limiting their potential to adapt to future challenges. Crop wild relatives (CWR) and landraces are a potentially valuable source of these alleles. This special issue presents a series of 17 research articles on 13 crops reporting successful implementation of CWR utilization in pre‐breeding. The contributions cover all activity areas in the pre‐breeding continuum, and thus connect genebanks with breeding pipelines. The authors have also included a review article and a collaborative paper describing an advanced database that provides a common platform for storing, visualizing and sharing pre‐breeding data.