Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents.
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Eastwood, Ruth J.
Tambam, Beri B.
Aboagye, Lawrence M.
Akparov, Zeynal I.
Aladele, Sunday E.
Allen, Richard
Amri, Ahmed
Anglin, Noelle L.
Araya, Rodolfo
Arrieta-Espinoza, Griselda
Asgerov, Aydin
Awang, Khadijah
Awas, Tesfaye
Barata, Ana Maria
Boateng, Samuel Kwasi
Magos Brehm, Joana
Breidy, Joelle
Breman, Elinor
Brenes Angulo, Arturo
Burle, Marília L.
Castañeda-Álvarez, Nora P.
Casimiro, Pedro
Chaves, Néstor F.
Clemente, Adelaide S.
Cockel, Christopher P.
Davey, Alexandra
De la Rosa, Lucía
Debouck, Daniel G.
Dempewolf, Hannes
Dokmak, Hiba
Ellis, David
Faruk, Aisyah
Freitas, Cátia
Galstyan, Sona
García, Rosa M.
Ghimire, Krishna H.
Guarino, Luigi
Harker, Ruth
Hope, Roberta
Humphries, Alan W.
Jamora, Nelissa
Jatoi, Shakeel Ahmad
Khutsishvili, Manana
Kikodze, David
Kyratzis, Angelos C.
León-Lobos, Pedro
Liu, Udayangani
Mainali, Ram P.
Mammadov, Afig T.
Manrique-Carpintero, Norma C.
Manzella, Daniele
Mat Ali, Mohd Shukri
Medeiros, Marcelo B.
Mérida Guzmán, María A.
Mikatadze-Pantsulaia, Tsira
Mohamed, El Tahir Ibrahim
Monteros-Altamirano, Álvaro
Morales, Aura
Müller, Jonas V.
Mulumba, John W.
Nersesyan, Anush
Nóbrega, Humberto
Nyamongo, Desterio O.
Obreza, Matija
Okere, Anthony U.
Orsenigo, Simone
Ortega-Klose, Fernando
Papikyan, Astghik
Pearce, Timothy R.
Pinheiro de Carvalho, Miguel A. A.
Prohens, Jaime
Rossi, Graziano
Salas, Alberto
Singh Shrestha, Deepa
Siddiqui, Sadar Uddin
Smith, Paul P.
Sotomayor, Diego A.
Tacán, Marcelo
Tapia, César
Toledo, Álvaro
Toll, Jane
Vu, Dang Toan
Vu, Tuong Dang
Way, Michael J.
Yazbek, Mariana
Zorrilla, Cinthya
Kilian, Benjamin
Date published
July 13, 2022
Abstract
The Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project set out to improve the diversity, quantity, and accessibility of germplasm collections of crop wild relatives (CWR). Between 2013 and 2018, partners in 25 countries, heirs to the globetrotting legacy of Nikolai Vavilov, undertook seed collecting expeditions targeting CWR of 28 crops of global significance for agriculture. Here, we describe the implementation of the 25 national collecting programs and present the key results. A total of 4587 unique seed samples from at least 355 CWR taxa were collected, conserved ex situ, safety duplicated in national and international genebanks, and made available through the Multilateral System (MLS) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty). Collections of CWR were made for all 28 targeted crops. Potato and eggplant were the most collected genepools, although the greatest number of primary genepool collections were made for rice. Overall, alfalfa, Bambara groundnut, grass pea and wheat were the genepools for which targets were best achieved. Several of the newly collected samples have already been used in pre-breeding programs to adapt crops to future challenges.
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Priority 5: Enhanced Partnerships
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Government of Norway | “Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives" QZA-14/0005 |
Journal title
Plants
Volume
11
Issue
14
Article number
1840
Publisher
MDPI AG
Place of publication
Basel, Switzerland
eISSN
2223-7747
Date accepted
June 29, 2022
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IF = 3.899 (2021-2022) ; This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Vavilov’s Concept of the Centres of Crop Origin and Diversity on Research, Conservation, and Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources Today—A Review on the Occasion of Vavilov’s 135th Anniversary)