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Crop Conservation Activities Database

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Consultation Meeting on Priorities and Plans for Increasing Access by Breeding Programmes to Diversity for Yam, Pearl Millet, Sorghum and Cowpea in Ghana

The funding for this project supported a meeting between between Ghanaian scientists and scientists from CGIAR Centres, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and FAO-GIPB. The meeting sought increase…

Consultation Meeting on Priorities and Plans for Increasing Access by Breeding Programmes and Farmers to Diversity for Yam, Pearl Millet, Sorghum and Cowpea in Mali

The funding for this project supported a meeting between between Malian scientists and scientists from CGIAR Centres, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and FAO-GIPB. The meeting sought increase…

Economic study on the contribution of local germplasm of Yam, Pearl Millet, Sorghum and Cowpea to the agriculture of Ghana, Nigeria and Mali

This project was an economic study. It produced a report, outlining the economic impact of the introduction of local yam, pearl millet, sorghum, and cowpea germplasm to the agriculture of Ghana,…

Evaluation and characterization of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) collections for tolerance to drought, micronutrients concentration and cookability in Kenya

This project conducted with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (National Dryland Farming Research Centre) evaluated and characterized 200 accessions of common beans held at National Genebank…

Evaluation of subset of chickpea consensus collection for resistances to phytophtora and aschochyta, and publication of chickpea and lentil germplasm ICIS databases on the internet

This project with Department of Primary Industries, Victoria in collaboration with the Department of Industry, New South Wales evaluated 246 chickpea accessions for Asochyta blight resistance and 235…

Evaluation of a collection of more than 8,000 Iranian wheat landrace accessions

This project with The University of California, Davis in collaboration with CIMMYT agro-morphologically characterized approximately 8000 accessions of wheat for 18 agronomic traits. During the…

Evaluation of Lathyrus genepools for ß-ODAP neurotoxin content and for determining cross pollination rate

This project with ICARDA evaluated 1128 accessions of Lathyrus sativus and 142 Lathyrus cicercia for B-ODAP neurotoxin content and 109 accessions were evaluated for the effect of environmental…

Evaluation of Phaseolus bean collection for identification of sources of resistance to root rots under drought stress

This project with CIAT evaluated 61 accessions of beans for resistance to root rot and tolerance to drought. The project identified 4, 2, and 3 accessions as potential sources of genes for resistance…

Evaluation of wild species germplasm of rice for agronomic and physiological traits suited for high water use efficiency

This project with the Punjab Agricultural University, India, evaluated 350 accessions of Oryza nivara and O. rufipogon for tolerance to iron (Fe) deficiency under aerobic conditions and for a series…

Facilitating access to data on the international in-trust collection of bean held at CIAT

This project facilitated access to data on the international in-trust collection of bean held at CIAT through a consultation with a GENESYS team, the digitization of non electronic documents, and the…

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