This project collected and analyzed wild relatives of several crops: 40 accessions of pearl millet, 18 accessions of oat, 3 accessions of carrot, 14 accessions of barley, 4 accessions of lentil, 7…
Though pearl millet is a cross pollinated crop and thus has a wide natural genetic diversity, the benefits of gene assemblies available for biotic and abiotic tolerances in wild backgrounds have not…
This project oversaw the phenotyping in chickpea's wild progenitor species for climate resilience. Since the cultivated crop has narrow genetic and phenotypic diversity, introducing new, wild sources…
This project organized the optimal and systematic use of biotic and abiotic stress resistance traits identified in sweet potato wild germplasm to generate better-adapted parental stocks for future…
This project facilitated the expansion of the genetic diversity of wheat though the use wheat crop wild relatives. Introgressions from wild hexaploid wheat were transferred into durum wheat,…
This project supported gap filling of Brazillian crop wild relatives in ex situ collections. Gap analysis was based upon updated information of natural species distribution and predicted impacts of…
This project in Georgia facilitated the collection of 50 populations of wild oat, barley, grass pea, lentil, apple, alfalfa, pea, wheat, and vetch relatives. Seeds were processed for incorporation to…
This project aided the collection of crop wild relatives in Viet Nam. Forty-five (45) accessions of banana, 47 accessions of cowpea, 53 accessions of rice, 42 accessions of pigeon pea, 16 accessions…
This project oversaw the collection of wild relatives of carrot, grass pea, alfalfa, wheat, and vetch in Georgia. In total, collections were conducted from 151 populations, targeting 27 species.
