We propose to introduce superior pre-bred materials generated by the Kenyan finger millet pre-breeding program to the neighboring countries of Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. We will transfer the…
The proposal aims to support the grasspea and finger millet pre-breeding components by developing the current finger millet and grass pea Germinate databases created under the CWR project and…
The project is aimed at developing and characterizing pre-bred materials of eggplant containing introgressions of wild relatives for incorporating them in breeding pipelines in order to develop new…
This proposal aims to leverage the genetic and genomic resources and knowledge base to develop a molecular breeding platform for rapid varietal development in grass pea, thereby helping farmers to…
Bangladesh and Pakistan have initiated carrot improvement projects in some of their major agricultural universities, and the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg, legal name: Asian Vegetable Research and…
In the next few decades it is anticipated that climate change will intensify around the world, resulting in more extreme weather such as higher temperatures and more variable rainfall. Some of the…
In the first phase of the project, new wild accessions from P. acutifolius were identified as tolerant to high temperature, under greenhouse and field conditions, and were crossed to common bean…
Pigeonpea is a widely adapted food legume crop cultivated throughout the semi-arid tropics and subtropics. It is of considerable importance in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America…