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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Participatory evaluation of Crop Wild Relative introgressed genetic resources in rice in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

A cooperative project is established between the the Crop Trust and Can Tho University for the period of 2018-2020 as part of the CWR program. The main objectives are (1) to evaluate the value of…

Participatory Evaluation of Wheat and Barley Germplasm Collections in Iran

This project with the Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA) Iran, in collaboration with farmers, evaluated 160 wheat and 160 barley accessions for yield, baking and nutritional quality and…

Phenotyping for climate resilience in chickpea’s wild progenitor species

This project oversaw the phenotyping in chickpea's wild progenitor species for climate resilience. Since the cultivated crop has narrow genetic and phenotypic diversity, introducing new, wild sources…

Phenotyping the Generation Challenge Program (GCP) barley reference collection for drought related traits

This project with ICARDA evaluated 270 accessions of barley for agronomic and physiological traits related to tolerance to drought. The phenotypic data generated by the project will be used in…

Pilot project on pre-breeding and evaluation of sunflower and its wild relatives

This project collected and analyzed nearly 300 wild Helianthus samples. It also evaluated 55 previously developed pre-bred lines. Of these 55, many accessions showed significant variation from each…

Plan and partnership for managing and sustaining CGIAR-held Collections

This funding began a long-term relationship between the Crop Trust and Bioversity wherein the Trust approved a master plan of Bioversity and assured funding for its activities.

Plan and partnership for managing and sustaining CGIAR-held Collections

This funding began a long-term relationship between the Crop Trust and IRRI wherein the Trust approved a master plan of IRRI and assured funding for its activities.

Molecular characterization of different species of yam (Dioscorea sps.)

This project enriched the international collection held at IITA through the regeneration and safety duplication of 3,000 yam accessions that were sent from various national genebanks in Africa…

Morphophysiological characterization of Burkina Faso rice collection for drought and iron toxicity tolerance

The Institut National de l'Environnement et de la Recherche Agronomique (INERA) screened African and Asian rice varieties under drought and iron toxicity stresses to use the best performers as…

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