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Coordination of and Administrative Support to Regeneration and Safety Duplication of Regionally Prioritized Crop Collections in Southern Africa (Administrative Support Project)

This project regenerated 592 accessions of cowpea, 543 accessions of maize, and 972 accessions of sorghum, in addition to its work with beans, pigeon pea; finger, minor, and pearl millets. The…

Agro-morphological characterization of Burkina Faso rice germplasm in lowland and irrigated conditions

During this project with Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Burkina Faso, in collaboration with AfricaRice, characterized 332 accessions of rice for 13 agro-morphological…

Seed Longevity Initiative of CGIAR Genebanks: Inter- and intra-species differences in seed longevity: what can be discovered from the historical germination test data of the CGIAR genebanks?

The cost of conservation, the use of plant genetic resources, and forward-planning the regeneration of accessions hinges upon genebank understanding of relative seed longevity. Unfortunately, the…

Seed Sorter Transfer

This project facilitated IRRI's order for an automatic rice cleaner and sorter. It has made the cleaning process more objective and reproducible while saving labor costs.

Sustainable use of potato crop wild relatives (CWR) and development of a pre-breeding core collection with key climate change-related traits

This project combined favorable characteristics, such as Blight tolerance and bacterial wilt resistance, and adaptation to climate change from potato crop wild relatives into new potato germplasm.…

Upgrading the In-trust Collections of Beans and Tropical Forages

This project oversaw the increase of bean and forage seeds at CIAT in order to alleviate a the genebank's difficulty providing users with all requested seed. Before the project began, 12,027…

Utilization of crop wild relatives in eggplant pre-breeding for adaptation to climate change

This project oversaw the utilization of crop wild relatives in eggplant pre-breeding in Spain, Sri Lanka, and Côte d'Ivoire. The objective of this project was to find adaptable accessions that would…

Collection and conservation of wild relatives of Solanum (2), Eleusine (1); Pennisetum (2); Sorghum (1) Oryza (5); Vigna(1) and Ipomea (1) in Ghana

This project supported the collection and conservation of wild relatives of 10 eggplant accessions, 5 accessions of finger millet, 15 accessions of pearl millet, 5 accessions of sorghum, 32…

Collection of Crop Wild Relatives in Georgia by the Institute of Botany

This project oversaw the collection of wild relatives of carrot, grass pea, alfalfa, wheat, and vetch in Georgia. In total, collections were conducted from 151 populations, targeting 27 species.

Multiplication of Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) collected in the CWR initiative

The proposed project will undertake multiplication, characterization, conservation, safety duplication and distribution of 746 accessions that were collected within the Crop Wild Relatives project.…

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