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Published online 19 March 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/452273a

Water: More crop per drop

Farmers' yields in the developing world are often limited by unreliable rains. Improving their harvests will require plant breeders, agronomists and geneticists to pull together - but can these experts work out their differences? Emma Marris reports.

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