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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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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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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