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A walk on the wild side

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Feeding a growing population in a hotter world will require exploiting a far broader range of crop diversity than now — and that means valuing wild genes.

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Acknowledgements

We are indebted to participants in a meeting on 'Adapting agriculture to climate change: The role of crop wild relatives' supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and Kendall Foundation: D. Battisti, D. Bergvinson, D. Brar, C. Fowler, G. Hawtin, R. Hijmans, T. Hodgkin, A. Jarvis, N. Maxted, S. McCouch, R. Naylor, R. Nelson, E. Okogbenin, R. Ortiz, T. Payne, R. Sackville Hamilton, P. Smith and J. Valls. The ideas expressed in this Commentary arose from discussions at this meeting, but any errors are our own.

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  1. Global Crop Diversity Trust, c/o Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, 00153, Italy

    Luigi Guarino

  2. Environmental Earth System Science Department and the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, Califonia, USA

    David B. Lobell

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Guarino, L., Lobell, D. A walk on the wild side. Nature Clim Change 1, 374–375 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1272

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