Extension for Seed Health Laboratory for Increased Seed Health Indexing Lebanon

About

The Seed Health Unit (SHU) laboratory expansion plan at ICARDA’s Terbol station in Lebanon involves creating additional space allowing the making of critical modifications to the current laboratory such as segregating the space of incoming & outgoing shipments, separating the testing area of each type of pathogens, availability of staff offices and ensuring their safety.

Impact

Goals

To safeguard global food security by improving germplasm health, ensuring phytosanitary safety and optimizing, in particular, ICARDA's germplasm movement.

Objectives

To increase operational efficiency of germplasm health testing of the Seed Health Unit of ICARDA Terbol-Lebanon.

Impact pathways

The expansion of the laboratory will have an impact on efficiency both on a quantitative level, by increasing the yearly number of tested samples, and on a qualitative level, by increasing the seed health indexing. This will allow the laboratory to meet testing demands and give high quality testing results. Consequently, other processes will be positively affected, such as the cleaning of infected samples as well the ability to conserve more materiel in Genebanks in Lebanon and Svalbard.