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Take a walk on the wild side

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Climate change is expected to severely impact farming in sub-Saharan Africa. Now research shows that crop wild relatives might be able to secure Africa’s existing cropping practices by providing the genetic diversity needed to adapt crops to climates that they have never seen before.

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  1. Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawai’i at Mânoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Michael B. Kantar

  2. GEMS Agroinformatics Initiative, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Bryan Runck

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Kantar, M.B., Runck, B. Take a walk on the wild side. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 731–732 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0581-y

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