Editorial: Orphan crops: breeding and biotechnology for sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition

Front Plant Sci. 2024 Jan 4:14:1349215. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1349215. eCollection 2023.

Zerihun Tadele¹, Jill M Farrant², Simon E Bull^{3

4}, Rita H Mumm^{5

6}

¹ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Molecular Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴ Plant Biochemistry, Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵ African Orphan Crops Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.

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Keywords: biotechnology; crop breeding; food security; nutrition; orphan crops; underutilized crops.

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