Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting, and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives
- Grant No
- Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change for Crop Wild Relatives
- Project Description
- This project produced a portfolio of plants that contains a list of characteristics required for adapting the world’s most important food crops to climate change. It was produced in a form that plant breeders can readily use to produce varieties adapted to future climatic conditions that farmers in the developing world will soon be encountering.
- Institute Name
- Royal Botanic Gardens (KEW)
- Institute Country
- United Kingdom
- List of Countries
- United Kingdom
- Crops
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Crop Seed or Veg type Acc collected Acc regenerated Acc sent to CG Acc introduced to genebank Acc sent to Svalbard Lentil 0 0 0 0 0 Apple 0 0 0 0 0 Alfalfa 0 0 0 0 0 Banana 0 0 0 0 0 Plantain 0 0 0 0 0 Rice 0 0 0 0 0 Pearl Millet 0 0 0 0 0 Bean 0 0 0 0 0 Rye 0 0 0 0 0 Eggplant 0 0 0 0 0 Potato 0 0 0 0 0 Sorghum 0 0 0 0 0 Wheat 0 0 0 0 0 Vetch 0 0 0 0 0 Faba Bean 0 0 0 0 0 Finger Millet 0 0 0 0 0 Sunflower 0 0 0 0 0 Barley 0 0 0 0 0 Bambara Groundnut 0 0 0 0 0 Oat 0 0 0 0 0 Pigeonpea 0 0 0 0 0 Chickpea 0 0 0 0 0 Carrot 0 0 0 0 0 Cowpea 0 0 0 0 0 Huckleberry 0 0 0 0 0 Artichoke 0 0 0 0 0 Hemp 0 0 0 0 0 Pepino 0 0 0 0 0 Sweet Pea 0 0 0 0 0 Tomato 0 0 0 0 0 Spinach 0 0 0 0 0 Sweetpotato 0 0 0 0 0 Grass Pea 0 0 0 0 0 - Program Name
- Global System Project
- Donor
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Start Date
- 15th of June 2011
- End Date
- 31st of December 2013
- Status
- Completed