Conserving banana diversity for use in perpetuity: strengthening the network of collections to improve access to wider diversity and safeguard threatened banana cultivars
- Grant No
- Conserving banana diversity for use in perpetuity
- Project Description
- This project focused on strengthening collections and exchanges within MusaNet in order to provide access to and promote the use of a wider range of Musa diversity to respond to the needs of germplasm users. Four main outputs of regeneration and safety duplication in priority field collections were completed, improving taxonomic understanding and completing cryopreservation of the in-trust collection.
- Institute Name
- Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Italy
- Institute Country
- Italy
- List of Countries
- Belgium
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Fiji
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Uganda
- Indonesia
- Vietnam
- Australia
- India
- 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 Banana Vegetative 0 3379 223 0 0 - Program Name
- Global System Project
- Donor
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Start Date
- 15th of March 2008
- End Date
- 31st of March 2011
- Status
- Completed