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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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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