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For over two decades, biofortification has helped make staple crops more nutritious for more than 350 million people. But for these gains to last and reach everyone, nutrition must become a standard feature of every new crop variety released.  That’s exactly what is now happening in countries like India and Nigeria, where governments are introducing minimum variety release standards for

In Mexico, a project has been completed to develop new elite parental lines of wheat with increased resistance to diseases. These lines can be used in breeding programs to quickly introduce specific, targeted traits, like ready-made ingredients in a larger recipe. “Deep scoping rapid-cycle recurrent genomic selection to accelerate the breeding pipeline for quantitative disease resistance in wheat”  The project