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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…

Characterization and evaluation agro morphological collections of sorghum and millet in Niger

This project with the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN) and ICRISAT evaluated 1152 sorghum and 780 pearl millet accessions for drought tolerance and resistance to downy…

Characterization and evaluation of the breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) collection of French Polynesia for tolerance to salinity, cold, and drought

This project with the Service du Developpement Rural of French Polynesia characterized and evaluated 66 accessions of breadfruit for drought resistance, 34 accessions for cold tolerance and 37…

Characterization and evaluation of Ipomoea batatas and Vigna unguiculata collections of the Agricultural Research Council and the National Plant Genetic Resources Centre

This project with the Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute of the Agricultural Research Council of South Africa and the National Plant Genetic Resources Center has evaluated the 99 cowpea and 102…

Characterization and evaluation of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) collections from Tanzania using agronomic and morphological markers

This project with Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI) in Tanzania characterized and evaluated 200 accessions of sorghum for tolerance to acidity and tolerance to drought. The project…

Carrot germplasm development and farmer training for production in stressful environments

Bangladesh and Pakistan have initiated carrot improvement projects in some of their major agricultural universities, and the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg, legal name: Asian Vegetable Research and…

Enhancing utilization of crop wild relatives: Capturing genetic value from ancestral populations of wild rice

This rice pre-breeding project generated four information products, organizing five categories of data, in addition to the rice germplasm itself. Nearly 300 accessions of rice were genotyped and…

Capacity Development for improving Genebank Documentation system and facilitating access to plant genetic resources information in Sudan

This a project proposal for the upgrading of the genebank documentation system at the national genebank of the sudan in the agricultural plant genetic resources conservation and research centre of…

Building the Genesys Catalog of Phenotypic Datasets - Role of MARDI's Genebank

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…

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