Upgrading international coconut genebanks and evaluating accessions
- Grant No
- GS12006
- Project Description
- This project upgraded international coconut genebanks by analysing germplasm data from six major genebanks, improving the Coconut Genetic Resources Database, making the germplasm data available online, designing a standard procedure for assessing the quality and viability of accessions conserved in genebanks, and launching updates for the global coconut conservation strategy.
- Institute Name
- Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Italy
- Institute Country
- Italy
- List of Countries
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Sri Lanka
- Brazil
- Cote d'Ivoire
- 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 Coconut 0 0 0 0 0 - Program Name
- Global System Project
- Donor
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Start Date
- 1st of October 2011
- End Date
- 31st of March 2012
- Status
- Completed