Authors:
Ruth Eastwood
Beri B. Tambam, Lawrence M Aboagye, Zeynal Akparov, Sunday E. Aladele, Richard G. Allen, Ahmed Amri, Noelle Anglin, Rodolfo Araya, Griselda Arrieta Espinoza, Aydin Asgerov, Khadijah Awang, Tesfaye Awas, Ana Maria Barata, Samuel Kwasi Boateng, Joana Magos Brehm, Joelle Braidy, Elinor Breman, Arturo Brenes Angulo, Marília L. Burle, Nora P. Castañeda Álvarez, Pedro Casimiro, Nestor F Chaves, Adelaide S Clemente, Christopher Cockel, Alexandra Davey, Lucía De la Rosa, Daniel Debouck, Hannes Dempewolf, Hiba Dokmak, David Ellis, Aisyah Faruk, Cátia Freitas, Sona Galstyan, Rosa M García, Krishna H Ghimire, Luigi Guarino, Ruth Harker, Roberta Hope, Alan W Humphries, Nelissa Jamora, Shakeel Ahmad Jatoi, Manana Khutsishvili, David Kikodze, Angelos C. Kyratzis, Pedro León Lobos, Udayangani Liu, Ram P Mainali, Afig T. Mammadov, Norma Constanza Manrique Carpintero, Daniele Manzella, Mohd Shukri Mat Ali, Marcelo B Medeiros, María A. Mérida Guzman, Tsira Mikatadze Pantsulaia, El Tahir Ibrahim Mohamed, Álvaro Monteros Altamirano, Aura Morales, Jonas V Muller, John Wasswa Mulumba, Anush Nersesyan, Humberto Nobrega, Desterio Nyamongo, Matija Obreza, Anthony U Okere, Simone Orsenigo, Fernando Ortega Klose, Astghik Papikyan, Timothy R Pearce, Miguel A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho, Miguel A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho, Jaime Prohens, Graziano Rossi, Alberto Salas, Deepak Singh, Sadar Uddin Siddiqui, Paul P Smith, Diego A Sotomayor, Diego A Sotomayor, Marcelo Tacán, César Tapia, Álvaro Toledo, Jane Toll, Dang Toan Vu, Tuong Dang Vu, Michael J Way, Mariana Yazbek, Cinthya Zorrilla, Benjamin Kilian
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
Citation:
Ruth Eastwood, Beri B. Tambam, Lawrence M Aboagye, Zeynal Akparov, Sunday E. Aladele, Richard G. Allen, Ahmed Amri, Noelle Anglin, Rodolfo Araya, Griselda Arrieta Espinoza, Aydin Asgerov, Khadijah Awang, Tesfaye Awas, Ana Maria Barata, Samuel Kwasi Boateng, Joana Magos Brehm, Joelle Braidy, Elinor Breman, Arturo Brenes Angulo, Marília L. Burle, Nora P. Castañeda Álvarez, Pedro Casimiro, Nestor Chaves, Adelaide S Clemente, Christopher Cockel, Alexandra Davey, Lucía De la Rosa, Daniel Debouck, Hannes Dempewolf, Hiba Dokmak, David Ellis, Aisyah Faruk, Cátia Freitas, Sona Galstyan, Rosa M García, Krishna H Ghimire, Luigi Guarino, Ruth Harker, Roberta Hope, Alan W Humphries, Nelissa Jamora, Shakeel Ahmad Jatoi, Manana Khutsishvili, David Kikodze, Angelos C. Kyratzis, Pedro León Lobos, Udayangani Liu, Ram P Mainali, Afig T. Mammadov, Norma Manrique, Daniele Manzella, Mohd Shukri Mat Ali, Marcelo B Medeiros, María A. Mérida Guzman, Tsira Mikatadze Pantsulaia, El Tahir Ibrahim Mohamed, Álvaro Monteros Altamirano, Aura Morales, Jonas V Muller, John Mulumba, Anush Nersesyan, Humberto Nobrega, Desterio Nyamongo, Matija Obreza, Anthony U Okere, Simone Orsenigo, Fernando Ortega Klose, Astghik Papikyan, Timothy R Pearce, Miguel A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho, Jaime Prohens, Graziano Rossi, Alberto Salas, Deepak Singh, Sadar Uddin Siddiqui, Paul P Smith, Diego A Sotomayor, Marcelo Tacán, César Tapia, Álvaro Toledo, Jane Toll, Dang Toan Vu, Tuong Dang Vu, Michael J Way, Mariana Yazbek, Cinthya Zorrilla, Benjamin Kilian. (13/7/2022). Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents. Plants, 11 (14).
Keywords:
food security
plant genetic resources
ex situ conservation
seed collection
crop wild relatives
