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As the world’s population continues to increase, the demand for food and other plant-based products is expected to more than double by 2050. Increases in yields for major crops, however, have largely stagnated in most regions of the world, with changes in global climate conditions expected to curtail productivity even further.

There is growing consensus that meeting the goal of doubling crop yields over the coming decades will require the sustainable intensification of global agriculture. Such an effort will depend on collaborative research aimed at developing new crop varieties that not only yield greater crop quantities but are also more resistant to abiotic and biotic stresses, including drought, high temperature, flooding, disease and insect pests.

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