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1501) Crop expansion and conservation priorities in tropical countries
Expansion of cropland in tropical countries is one of the principal causes of biodiversity loss, and threatens to undermine progress towards meeting the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. To understand this threat better, this study analysed data on crop distribution and expansion in 128 tropical countries,...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2013
1502) Decentralized-participatory plant breeding: an example of demand driven research
This paper describes a model of participatory plant breeding (PPB) developed by The International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) which has been used successfully in several countries in West Asia and North Africa.
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global; Near East; Africa
Publication year: 2007
1503) Capacity Building Workshop on Genetic Resource Policies for CGIAR Scientists and Partners in East Africa, 4 - 7 June 2019, ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The CGIAR Genebank Platform Policy Module, in coordination with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), organized the ‘Capacity building workshop on genetic resource policies for CGIAR scientists and partners in East Africa’. The workshop was held from 4 - 7 June 2019, at the ILRI...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1504) Filling the gaps in gene banks: Collecting, characterizing, and phenotyping wild banana relatives of Papua New Guinea
Since natural habitats are disappearing fast, there is an urgent need to collect, characterize, and phenotype banana (Musa spp.) crop wild relatives to identify unique genotypes with specific traits that fill the gaps in our gene banks. This study delivers a proof of principle that the wild diversity...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: South West Pacific
Publication year: 2020
1505) Genebank genomics bridges the gap between the conservation of crop diversity and plant breeding
Genebanks have the long-term mission of preserving plant genetic resources as an agricultural legacy for future crop improvement. Operating procedures for seed storage and plant propagation have been in place for decades, but there is a lack of effective means for the discovery and transfer of beneficial...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019