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We thank staff of the Agricultural Development Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for its hospitality at the Perennial Crops Convening of October 2012, during which this collaboration commenced. Useful comments on the manuscript from B. Gates and D. Baltensperger are gratefully acknowledged.
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Murray, S., Eckhoff, P., Wood, L. et al. A proposal to use gamete cycling in vitro to improve crops and livestock. Nat Biotechnol 31, 877–880 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2707
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