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Banana germplasm for drought tolerance for the benefit of resource-poor farmers

This project with the National Research Center for Banana (NRCB) in India, evaluated banana accessions for drought tolerance in collaboration with PROMUSA. Three ABB genome accessions (Saba, Vennutu…

Biodiversity in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in Malawi and Mozambique

This project with the University of Free State, South Africa and the Department of Agriculture, Malawi and the Instituto de Investigacao Agraria of Mozambique characterized and evaluated 84…

Assessment of East African highland banana (AAA) and plantain (AAB) cultivars in Asia for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) tropical race (TR) 4

This project with Bioversity International in collaboration with the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences of China and partners in the Philippines, evaluated 7 East African Highland bananas,…

Assessing drought tolerance of wild and edible Musa balbisiana germplasm and the impact of drought on the activation of infectious endogenous BSV EPRVs

The Institute of Plant Breeding and Bureau of Plant Industry, Philippines evaluated 44 accessions of wild and edible Musa banana germplasm for tolerance to drought and effect of drought on activation…

An Effective, Easy-to-Use Information Management System for Worldwide Germplasm Management Needs

This project oversaw the development of a plant genetic resource software: the GRIN-Global Information System. It was designed to be an "effective, easy-to-use information management system for…

Analysis of the costs of conservation activities at The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC) and analysis of germplasm distribution data of The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC) between 2003 and 2009

This project aimed to determine the costs of ongoing maintenance and regeneration of germplasm, including the cost of morphological and molecular characterization of accessions. It also identified…

Agro-morphological characterization of West and Central African accessions selected from the GCP pearl millet reference collection

Throughout this project, the ICRISAT, in collaboration with IER, Mali and LCRI, agro-morphologically characterized 74 accessions of pearl millet and evaluated 81 accessions for resistance to striga…

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…

Using Bean populations derived from P. acutifolius to advance toward generation of new bean varieties and discerning the traits and genetic base associated to heat tolerance

In the first phase of the project, new wild accessions from P. acutifolius were identified as tolerant to high temperature, under greenhouse and field conditions, and were crossed to common bean…

BOLD Emergency with SPGRC, Zambia

Emergency support for the procurement of a solar power system at SPGRC, Zambia

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