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Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity

The first project funded by the Trust began its work in the preservation of crop genetic diversity. The major activities of this project included: preparation of advocacy materials for policy makers,…

Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity

The first project funded by the Trust began its work in the preservation of crop genetic diversity. The major activities of this project included: preparation of advocacy materials for policy makers,…

Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) Germplasm Characterization and Evaluation

This project with Plant Genetic Resources Centre, supported Bangladesh's work to characterize 1000 accessions of grass pea for agro-morphological characters and evaluated 350 accessions of grass pea…

GRIN-Global Frontrunner

This project facilitated the installation of the GRIN-Global genebank management information system at CIMMYT. The new system allows all the genebank's data to be stored in one place, in one…

Heat-Tolerant Rice to Combat Global Warming

This project with IRRI and the Philippine Rice Research Institute and the International Network for Genetic Evaluation of Rice (INGER) evaluated 455 rice accessions for heat tolerance. The DNA…

Evaluation of subset of chickpea consensus collection for resistances to phytophtora and aschochyta, and publication of chickpea and lentil germplasm ICIS databases on the internet

This project with Department of Primary Industries, Victoria in collaboration with the Department of Industry, New South Wales evaluated 246 chickpea accessions for Asochyta blight resistance and 235…

Evaluation of drought tolerance in wild bananas from Indonesia

Most edible bananas are susceptible to drought with reported yield losses up to 65%. Wild varieties of banana with the AA genome configuration (as opposed to the BB genome configuration already known…

Evaluation of indigenous chickpea and wheat germplasm for traits of economic importance for farmers

This project with National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Pakistan agro-morphologically characterized and evaluated 357 accessions of chickpea for resistance to aschochyta. The project also…

Evaluation of a collection of more than 8,000 Iranian wheat landrace accessions

This project with The University of California, Davis in collaboration with CIMMYT agro-morphologically characterized approximately 8000 accessions of wheat for 18 agronomic traits. During the…

Evaluation of Lathyrus genepools for ß-ODAP neurotoxin content and for determining cross pollination rate

This project with ICARDA evaluated 1128 accessions of Lathyrus sativus and 142 Lathyrus cicercia for B-ODAP neurotoxin content and 109 accessions were evaluated for the effect of environmental…

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