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The global pipeline of GM crops out to 2020

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Although a few arable crops and agronomic traits will likely dominate commercial varieties for the foreseeable future, with many being stacked together, more quality traits and specialty crops are being introduced into the pipeline.

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Figure 1: GM crop events in the market and at the precommercial, regulatory and advanced R&D stages in 2008 and 2014, illustrated by crop.
Figure 2: Distribution of traits among GM crop transformation events in commercial cultivation in 2008 and in 2014, and at the precommercial and regulatory stages in 2014.
Figure 3: Distribution of GM crop events per developer type and development phase.
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Figure 5: Distribution of type of GM crops developed at different stages in industrialized and developing countries.
Figure 6: Number of commercial stacks identified per crop.

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The authors wish to thank all the participants in the International Workshop on the Global Pipeline of GM crops that took place in Seville, at the JRC-IPTS (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies) premises, on June 11 and 12, 2014, for their active participation and their contribution to the description of the GM crops pipeline.

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Parisi, C., Tillie, P. & Rodríguez-Cerezo, E. The global pipeline of GM crops out to 2020. Nat Biotechnol 34, 31–36 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3449

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