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Feeding the future

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  • Susan McCouch

    (Susan McCouch is professor of plant breeding and genetics and of plant biology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
    On behalf of attendees and organizers of the Crop Wild Relative Genomics meeting held in Asilomar, California, in December 2012. See Supplementary Information for full author list.)

  • Gregory J. Baute

    (Gregory J. Baute and Loren Rieseberg University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.)

  • James Bradeen

    (James Bradeen University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.)

  • Paula Bramel

    (Paula Bramel, Hannes Dempewolf, Luigi Guarino, Charlotte Lusty and Jane Toll Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn, Germany.)

  • Peter K. Bretting

    (Beltsville, Maryland, USA.)

  • Edward Buckler

    (Ithaca, New York, USA.
    and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.)

  • John M. Burke

    (John M. Burke and Scott Jackson University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.)

  • David Charest

    (David Charest Genome BC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.)

  • Sylvie Cloutier

    (Sylvie Cloutier Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada.)

  • Glenn Cole

    (Glenn Cole Pioneer, Woodland, California, USA.)

  • Hannes Dempewolf

    (Paula Bramel, Hannes Dempewolf, Luigi Guarino, Charlotte Lusty and Jane Toll Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn, Germany.)

  • Michael Dingkuhn

    (Michael Dingkuhn Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), France; and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, the Philippines.
    and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, the Philippines.)

  • Catherine Feuillet

    (Catherine Feuillet Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Clermont-Ferrand, France.)

  • Paul Gepts

    (Paul Gepts and Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA.)

  • Dario Grattapaglia

    (Dario Grattapaglia and Jose Valls Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Brazil.)

  • Luigi Guarino

    (Paula Bramel, Hannes Dempewolf, Luigi Guarino, Charlotte Lusty and Jane Toll Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn, Germany.)

  • Scott Jackson

    (John M. Burke and Scott Jackson University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.)

  • Sandra Knapp

    (Sandra Knapp Natural History Museum, London, UK.)

  • Peter Langridge

    (Peter Langridge Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), Adelaide, Australia.)

  • Amy Lawton-Rauh

    (Amy Lawton-Rauh Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.)

  • Qui Lijua

    (Qui Lijua Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.)

  • Charlotte Lusty

    (Paula Bramel, Hannes Dempewolf, Luigi Guarino, Charlotte Lusty and Jane Toll Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn, Germany.)

  • Todd Michael

    (Todd Michael Monsanto Company, Creve Coeur Missouri, USA.)

  • Sean Myles

    (Sean Myles Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.)

  • Ken Naito

    (Ken Naito and Norihiko Tomooka National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan.)

  • Randall L. Nelson

    (Urbana Illinois, USA.
    and the University of Illinois, Urbana Illinois, USA.)

  • Reno Pontarollo

    (Reno Pontarollo Genome Prairie, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.)

  • Christopher M. Richards

    (Christopher M. Richards Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
    Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.)

  • Loren Rieseberg

    (Gregory J. Baute and Loren Rieseberg University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.)

  • Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

    (Paul Gepts and Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA.)

  • Steve Rounsley

    (Steve Rounsley DowAgro, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.)

  • Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton

    (Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, the Philippines.)

  • Ulrich Schurr

    (Ulrich Schurr Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.)

  • Nils Stein

    (Nils Stein Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.)

  • Norihiko Tomooka

    (Ken Naito and Norihiko Tomooka National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan.)

  • Esther van der Knaap

    (Esther van der Knaap Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, USA.)

  • David van Tassel

    (David van Tassel Land Institute, Salina, Kansas, USA.)

  • Jane Toll

    (Paula Bramel, Hannes Dempewolf, Luigi Guarino, Charlotte Lusty and Jane Toll Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn, Germany.)

  • Jose Valls

    (Dario Grattapaglia and Jose Valls Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Brazil.)

  • Rajeev K. Varshney

    (Rajeev K. Varshney International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India.)

  • Judson Ward

    (Judson Ward Driscoll's, Watsonville, California, USA.)

  • Robbie Waugh

    (Robbie Waugh James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK.)

  • Peter Wenzl

    (Peter Wenzl International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), El Batán, Mexico.)

  • Daniel Zamir

    (Daniel Zamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.)

Abstract

We must mine the biodiversity in seed banks to help to overcome food shortages, urge Susan McCouch and colleagues.

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  • Susan McCouch & Gregory J. Baute & James Bradeen & Paula Bramel & Peter K. Bretting & Edward Buckler & John M. Burke & David Charest & Sylvie Cloutier & Glenn Cole & Hannes Dempewolf & Michael Dingkuh, 2013. "Feeding the future," Nature, Nature, vol. 499(7456), pages 23-24, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:499:y:2013:i:7456:d:10.1038_499023a
    DOI: 10.1038/499023a
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