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Crop Wild Relatives

Man at grasspea breeding facility

Jamal Mabrouki, ICARDA technician. Grasspea breeding at ICARDA's facilities at Marchouch Station, Morocco. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)

Opinion

Sustainable Food Systems Begin with Resilient Seeds

21 Feb 2023

Woman pulling seed containers off the shelf.Seed conservation at the National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB) in Ibadan. (Photo: Neil Palmer for the Crop Trust)
News

Building a Toolbox of Sorghum Diversity

17 Feb 2023

Researchers with the Chickpea Innovation Lab

Researchers with the Chickpea Innovation Lab at one of the UC Davis greenhouse facilities carrying out advanced crossing of F2 populations. Photo: University of California-Davis

News

Beyond Hummus

10 Feb 2023

Sorghum in MaliFarmers from Sokoro village who conducted the sorghum evaluation trials (left to right: Sina Mounkoro, Michel Mounkoro, Brafo Mounkoro, Moise Mounkoro and Bakary Kone). The photo shows the diversity of sorghum in the trial, each row being genetically different. They mostly have the drooping panicles of the local varieties, but differ in height, earliness, and other traits. Photo: Aly Boubacar
News

Farmers in Mali Go Wild for Sorghum

30 Jan 2023

Farmer group in Kenya looking at sorghumAminyasa farmer group checking out crop wild relatives-derived sorghum lines in Migori in 2019. Photo: Eva Weltzien
News

Kenyan Farmers Welcome “Exotic” Sorghum

24 Jan 2023

Farmer placing a stone to vote for wheat variety.Marchouch region, Morocco. Farmer Abdellah Bounagua carefully selects a row and places his one stone. Visiting farmers are given one stone and asked to select their preferred variety. The host farmer receives two stones. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)
In the Media

Science Against Climate Change: Unlocking Wild Genes in Wheat

5 Dec 2022

A field technician for the durum wheat breeding project shows a durum wheat spike.A field technician for the durum wheat breeding project shows a durum wheat spike. ICARDA Terbol station. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)
In the Media

Jabal: The New Wheat Scientists Say Can Withstand Extreme Heat and Drought

4 Dec 2022

As part of the Crop Wild Relatives alfalfa pre-breeding project, an “alfalfa varietal garden” has been established at INIA’s Research Center Kampenaike (which means ‘Place of Sheep’ in Tehuelche, one of the Chonan languages of Patagonia), where 33 lines that include materials from China, Kazakhstan, and Australia are growing. “There’s also three lines from Magallanes, 11 from the Alta Sierra, four from Canada and 25 commercial varieties,” said Jorge Ivelic. Photo: LS Salazar/Crop TrustAs part of the Crop Wild Relatives alfalfa pre-breeding project, an “alfalfa varietal garden” has been established at INIA’s Research Center Kampenaike, where 33 lines that include materials from China, Kazakhstan, and Australia are growing. (Photo: Luis Salazar/Crop Trust)
News

Crop Science Honors Research on Crop Wild Relatives

7 Oct 2022

Photo of carrots against black background.The Crop Wild Relatives Project utilizes the traits of wild relatives to improve heat, drought, and salt tolerance in cultivated carrots.
News

Climate Proofing the Carrot: Where Flavor Meets Stress Tolerance

30 Aug 2022

4 Apr 2020

Pigeonpea: Food for DroughtPigeonpea is a nutritious legume that can produce harvests with just 65 cm of rain a year. (Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust)
News

Pigeonpea: Food for Drought

17 Aug 2022

30 Apr 2014

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