A Blueprint for Tapping the Wild Relatives for Crop Improvement: A Success Story of CWR-derived Rice Candidate Varieties, Nông Dân 1 and Nông Dân 2 in Vietnam

¹Global Crop Diversity Trust, 53113, Bonn, Germany

²Centre for Crop & Food Innovation, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia

³Mekong Delta Development Research Institute, Can Tho University, Can Tho, Vietnam

^*Author for correspondence: shivalipbg@gmail.com

Online published on 11 March, 2026.