Sustainable use of potato crop wild relatives (CWR) and development of a pre-breeding core collection with key climate change-related traits
- Grant No
- GS13048
- Project Description
- This project combined favorable characteristics, such as Blight tolerance and bacterial wilt resistance, and adaptation to climate change from potato crop wild relatives into new potato germplasm. Capacity building of manual crossing techniques was also included in this project.
- Institute Name
- International Potato Center, Peru (CIP)
- Institute Country
- Peru
- List of Countries
- Peru
- Uruguay
- Brazil
- 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 Potato 0 0 0 0 0 - Program Name
- Crop Wild Relatives
- Donor
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
- Start Date
- 1st of December 2013
- End Date
- 31st of December 2016
- Status
- Completed