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Strategic pre-breeding for wheat improvement

Nature Plants volume 1, Article number: 15018 (2015) Cite this article

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Increasing the yields of crops requires the investigation, and subsequent exploitation, of the genetic diversity preserved beyond the narrow range of commonly cultivated varieties. Such an undertaking requires a partnership of academia and industry.

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  1. Graham Moore is the WISP Co-ordinator at the John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich, UK.,

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Moore, G. Strategic pre-breeding for wheat improvement. Nature Plants 1, 15018 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.18

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