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Crop Conservation Activities Database

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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting, and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives

This project produced a portfolio of plants that contains a list of characteristics required for adapting the world’s most important food crops to climate change. It was produced in a form that plant…

Analysis of the costs of conservation activities at The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC) and analysis of germplasm distribution data of The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC) between 2003 and 2009

This project aimed to determine the costs of ongoing maintenance and regeneration of germplasm, including the cost of morphological and molecular characterization of accessions. It also identified…

Assessment of East African highland banana (AAA) and plantain (AAB) cultivars in Asia for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) tropical race (TR) 4

This project with Bioversity International in collaboration with the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences of China and partners in the Philippines, evaluated 7 East African Highland bananas,…

Characterization and evaluation of the breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) collection of French Polynesia for tolerance to salinity, cold, and drought

This project with the Service du Developpement Rural of French Polynesia characterized and evaluated 66 accessions of breadfruit for drought resistance, 34 accessions for cold tolerance and 37…

Consultation Meeting on Priorities and Plans for Increasing Access by Breeding Programmes to Diversity for Yam, Pearl Millet, Sorghum and Cowpea in Nigeria

The funding for this project supported a meeting between between Nigerian scientists and scientists from CGIAR Centres, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and FAO-GIPB. The meeting sought to increase…

Collection of finger millet, cowpea, and pearl millet species in Tanzania

This project collected and regenerated 57 wild accessions of cowpea, 25 wild accessions of finger millet, and 35 wild accessions of pearl millet in Tanzania. Safety duplications were made and…

Collection of wild relatives of sorghum, millets, and cowpea in Kenya

This project collected and regenerated a total of 16 wild accessions of pearl and finger millet in Kenya. Safety duplications were made and deposited in Svalbard.

Collection of wild species of Eleusine Gaertn. and Pennisetum A.Rich. in Uganda

This project collected and regenerated 248 wild accessions of pearl and finger millet in Uganda. Safety duplications were made and deposited in Svalbard.

Collection of wild species of Vigna, Cajanus pennisetum and Eleusine spp. in Ghana

This project collected and regenerated 34 wild accessions of cowpea, 3 wild accessions of pigeon pea, two wild accessions of pearl millet, and 13 wild accessions of finger millet in Ghana.

Collection of wild vigna cowpea in Nigeria

This project collected and regenerated 18 wild accessions of v. unguiculata subspecies baoulensis and 243 wild accessions of v. unguiculata var spontanea in Nigeria. Safety duplications were made and…

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