Wild plants or less domesticated landraces are a promising
source of traits that could enable plants to withstand
insect attack and other stressful conditions. Strategies are required to identify resistance traits and introgress
them into domesticated crop germplasm. Next generation
sequencing (NGS) technologies being used to generate
whole genome sequences for a wide range of crop species,
when combined with precise phenotyping methods, can
provide powerful and rapid tools for identifying the
genetic basis of agriculturally important traits and for
predicting the breeding value of individuals in a plant
breeding population [14]. These approaches will greatly
facilitate the identification of useful traits. However the
phenotyping is often more time consuming than the
genotyping