Collinson, Sarah https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2947-300X
Cairns, Jill E. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2735-3485
Ndlala, Lucia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6838-1303
Deonovic, Benjamin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-0478
Ligeyo, Dickson https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0971-6999
Albertsen, Marc https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3058-2366
Chivasa, Walter https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0704-8096
Mashingaidze, Kingstone https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9545-005X
Olsen, Michael S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8818-6238
Ertiro, Berhanu T. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1703-4234
Prasanna, Boddupalli M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5761-2273
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-018951)
Article History
Received: 15 September 2024
Accepted: 18 December 2024
First Online: 30 December 2024
Declarations
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: All authors declare that they have no known competing interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. SC, BD and MA are employees of Corteva Agriscience. Corteva Agriscience owns the rights to the technology. There are no competing interests as Corteva Agriscience is providing the technology royalty-free to licensed seed companies producing seed for smallholders in the region under the terms of the Seed Production Technology for Africa agreement (). MSO is currently an employee of Bayer but was an employee of CIMMYT during this study and declares no potential conflict of interest. JEC, LN, DL, WC, KM, BE and BMP declare no potential conflict of interest.