Brian V. Ford-Lloyd,^* Markus Schmidt,^** Susan J. Armstrong,^*** Oz Barazani,^**** Jan Engels,^***** Rivka Hadas,^**** Karl Hammer,^****** Shelagh P. Kell,^* Dingming Kang,^******* Korous Khoshbakht,^****** Yinghui Li,^******** Chunlin Long,^********* Bao-Rong Lu,^********** Keping Ma,^*********** Viet Tung Nguyen,^************ Lijuan Qiu,^{*************} Song Ge,^{**************} Wei Wei,^{**************} Zongwen Zhang,^{***************} Nigel Maxted<sup>*


*</sup>Brian V. Ford-Lloyd (b.ford-lloyd@bham.ac.uk), Shelagh P. Kell, and Nigel Maxted are affiliated with the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham, England.
^**Markus Schmidt is affiliated with the Organization for International Dialogue and Conflict Management in Vienna.
^***Susan J. Armstrong is affiliated with the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham, England.
^****Oz Barazani and Rivka Hadas are affiliated with the Israel Plant Gene Bank at the Institute of Plant Sciences in Bet-Dagan, Israel.
^*****Jan Engels is affiliated with Bioversity International, Rome, Italy.
^******Karl Hammer and Korous Khoshbakht are affiliated with Kassel University in Witzenhausen, Germany.
^*******Dingming Kang is affiliated with the Plant Genetic Breeding Department in the College of Agronomy and Biotechnology at China Agricultural University in Beijing, China.
^********Yinghui Li is affiliated with the Institute of Crop Science at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, China.
^*********Chunlin Long is affiliated with the Kunming Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yunnan, China.
^**********Bao-Rong Lu is affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
^***********Keping Ma is affiliated with the Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.
^************Viet Tung Nguyen is affiliated with the Hanoi University of Agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam.
^{*************}Lijuan Qiu is affiliated with the Institute of Crop Science at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, China.
^{**************}Song Ge and Wei Wei are affiliated with the Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.
^{***************}Zongwen Zhang is associated with Bioversity International, Beijing, China.