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Collection and conservation of wild bean, rice and potato relatives in Costa Rica

This project identified 42 populations of bean, 73 populations of rice, and 45 populations of potato for the collection of crop wild relatives. The bean, rice, and potato seeds were shared with CIAT,…

Collecting of rice landraces in the Central African Republic

This project supported the collection of rice landraces in Central African Republic (CAR). The main concern in CAR is that the diffusion and adoption of improved varieties could lead to a decline of…

CIP- GRIN-Global 2.0 Pilot Deployment

This project supported an assessment of the International Potato Center's (CIP) need, suitability, applicability, and ease of conversion to GRIN-Global, a genebank management information system.

Coconut embryo culture to improve collecting and safe movement of germplasm

This project supported the regeneration of 12 accessions of coconut germplasm as part of the COGENT training course. Of these, 11 were deemed viable and were duplicated and deposited in selected…

Norad's funding for the CIFOR-ICRAF collections

Via the JFF, FAO will provide support to the safeguarding of ex situ collections of PGRFA, held by CIFOR-ICRAF, ensuring the long-term survival of an important foundation for the world's future food…

CIAT- GRIN-Global 2.0 Pilot Deployment

This project facilitated the pilot deployment of GRIN-Global genebank management system at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). GRIN-Global replaced an "in house" information…

Characterization of indigenous coconut germplasm in Sri Lanka

This project with Coconut Research Institute, facilitated Sri Lanka's characterization and evaluation of 22 accessions of coconut for tolerance to drought and resistance to pests and diseases. The…

Building the Genesys Catalog of Phenotypic datasets for Maize, Pigeon peas, Ground nuts, and Sesame Accessions at the Genetic Resources Research Institute (GeRRI)

The goal of this project is to contribute to the building of a metadata-based catalogue of accession-related phenotypic datasets on Genesys through building in-house capacities and processes to…

Building the Genesys Catalog of Phenotypic Datasets

The goal of this project is to contribute to the building of a metadata-based catalogue of accession-related phentotypic datasets on Genesys through building in-house capacities and processes to…

Building the Genesys Catalog of Phenotypic Datasets

The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) is an international organization that works on vegetables research and development to alleviate global poverty and malnutrition. WorldVeg conducts vegetable…

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