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Darwin Initiative -Sweetpotato a model for food-security and long-term conservation of biodiversity

Grant No

Darwin "Clean & Share" CIP

Project Description

CIP-Kenya will place the 30 landraces from Madagascar and Zambia in vitro, phytosanitary clean the landraces, multiply shoots, acclimate the shoots out of in vitro and repatriate the phytosanitary clean material back to Madagascar and Zambia. CIP Kenya will also ship cleaned materials received to CIP-Lima, who will clear the landraces through Peruvian quarantine, confirm phytosanitary clean status and incorporate into the in-trust global sweetpotato collection. CIP will assist logistically in the shipment of dried leaf material from ZARI and FIFAMANOR to Diversity Arrays in Australia for the generation of genetic markers for landraces in the project. CIP will also assist in the analysis of the genetic markers.

Institute Name

International Potato Center, Peru (CIP)

Institute Country

Peru

List of Countries

Peru
Madagascar
Zambia
Kenya

Program Name

Global Genebank Partnership

Donor

Darwin Initiative

Start Date

1st of June 2022

End Date

31st of March 2025

Status

On-Going