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Fig. 1: Rapid delivery of new cultivars to farmer fields and better products to markets.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, The University of Western Australia, and Director General, ICRISAT for supporting an international workshop in Perth, Australia, to brainstorm topics in the article. R.K.V. acknowledges support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for undertaking research on seed delivery systems through the Tropical Legumes projects at ICRISAT.

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  1. Centre of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India

    Rajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal, Rutwik Barmukh, Annapurna Chitikineni & Arvind Kumar

  2. State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Centre for Crop and Food Innovation, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

    Rajeev K. Varshney

  3. The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    Rajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal, Wallace Cowling, Janine Croser, David Edwards, Muhammad Farooq, A. Harvey Millar & Kadambot H. M. Siddique

  4. ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, India

    Abhishek Bohra

  5. School of Life Sciences and Center for Soybean Research of the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

    Hon-Ming Lam

  6. Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Lee T. Hickey

  7. School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

    Janine Croser

  8. School of Biological Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

    David Edwards

  9. Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture & Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al Khoud, Oman

    Muhammad Farooq

  10. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Heroica Veracruz, Mexico

    José Crossa

  11. Molecular Systems Biology (MOSYS), Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology and Vienna Metabolomics Center (VIME), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfram Weckwerth

  12. ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

    A. Harvey Millar

  13. John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK

    Michael W. Bevan

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Varshney, R.K., Bohra, A., Roorkiwal, M. et al. Rapid delivery systems for future food security. Nat Biotechnol 39, 1179–1181 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01079-z

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