Collection of crop wild relatives genepool of finger millet, pearl millet, rice, sorghum, bambara groundnut, sweet potato, cowpea and eggplant in Nigeria by NACGRAB
- Grant No
- GS15012
- Project Description
- This project supported the collection of crop wild relatives in Nigeria. These included 10 accessions of finger millet, 24 accessions of rice, 45 accessions of eggplant, 10 accessions of sorghum, 19 accessions of pearl millet, 5 accessions of sweet potato, bambara groundnut, and 30 accessions of cowpea. Seeds were sent to the NACGRAB long-term gene bank.
- Institute Name
- National Center for Genetic Resources & Biotechnology (NACGRAB)
- Institute Country
- Nigeria
- List of Countries
- Nigeria
- 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 Finger Millet 0 0 0 0 0 Rice 0 0 0 0 0 Pearl Millet 0 0 0 0 0 Eggplant 0 0 0 0 0 Sweetpotato 0 0 0 0 0 Sorghum 0 0 0 0 0 Bambara Groundnut 0 0 0 0 0 Cowpea 0 0 0 0 0 - Program Name
- Crop Wild Relatives
- Donor
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
- Start Date
- 1st of May 2015
- End Date
- 31st of December 2017
- Status
- Completed