Plants (Jul 2022)
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents
- Ruth J. Eastwood,
- Beri B. Tambam,
- Lawrence M. Aboagye,
- Zeynal I. Akparov,
- Sunday E. Aladele,
- Richard Allen,
- Ahmed Amri,
- Noelle L. Anglin,
- Rodolfo Araya,
- Griselda Arrieta-Espinoza,
- Aydin Asgerov,
- Khadijah Awang,
- Tesfaye Awas,
- Ana Maria Barata,
- Samuel Kwasi Boateng,
- Joana Magos Brehm,
- Joelle Breidy,
- Elinor Breman,
- Arturo Brenes Angulo,
- Marília L. Burle,
- Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez,
- Pedro Casimiro,
- Néstor F. Chaves,
- Adelaide S. Clemente,
- Christopher P. Cockel,
- Alexandra Davey,
- Lucía De la Rosa,
- Daniel G. 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 C. Manrique-Carpintero,
- Daniele Manzella,
- Mohd Shukri Mat Ali,
- Marcelo B. Medeiros,
- María A. Mérida Guzmán,
- Tsira Mikatadze-Pantsulaia,
- El Tahir Ibrahim Mohamed,
- Álvaro Monteros-Altamirano,
- Aura Morales,
- Jonas V. Müller,
- John W. Mulumba,
- Anush Nersesyan,
- Humberto Nóbrega,
- Desterio O. 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,
- Deepa Singh Shrestha,
- 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
Affiliations
- Ruth J. Eastwood
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK
- Beri B. Tambam
- Global Crop Diversity Trust, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Lawrence M. Aboagye
- CSIR—Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute, Bunso P.O. Box 7, Ghana
- Zeynal I. Akparov
- Genetic Resources Institute of Azerbaijan NAS, 155 Azadlig Avenue, Baku AZ1106, Azerbaijan
- Sunday E. Aladele
- National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Moor Plantation, Ibadan PMB 5382, Nigeria
- Richard Allen
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK
- Ahmed Amri
- The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Dalia Bldg, 2nd Floor Bashir El Kassar Street Verdun, Beirut 1108-2010, Lebanon
- Noelle L. Anglin
- USDA ARS Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research, 1691 S 2700 W, Aberdeen, ID 83210, USA
- Rodolfo Araya
- Estación Experimental Agrícola Fabio Baudrit Moreno, Universidad de Costa Rica, 3 km W of Catholic Church of Barrio San José, La Garita, Alajuela 183-4050, Costa Rica
- Griselda Arrieta-Espinoza
- Centro de Investigación en Biología Celular y Molecular, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad de la Investigación—C.P., San José 11501-2050, Costa Rica
- Aydin Asgerov
- Genetic Resources Institute of Azerbaijan NAS, 155 Azadlig Avenue, Baku AZ1106, Azerbaijan
- Khadijah Awang
- Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), Persiaran MARDI-UPM, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
- Tesfaye Awas
- Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute, Comoros Street, Yeka Subcity, Addis Ababa P.O. Box 30726, Ethiopia
- Ana Maria Barata
- Banco Português de Germoplasma Vegetal, INIAV, Quinta de S. José, São Pedro de Merelim, 4700-859 Braga, Portugal
- Samuel Kwasi Boateng
- CSIR—Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute, Bunso P.O. Box 7, Ghana
- Joana Magos Brehm
- Jardim Botânico, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, R. da Escola Politécnica 56, 1250-102 Lisboa, Portugal
- Joelle Breidy
- Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute, Tal Amara, Rayak P.O. Box 287, Lebanon
- Elinor Breman
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK
- Arturo Brenes Angulo
- Centro de Investigaciones Agronómicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José 11501-2060, Costa Rica
- Marília L. Burle
- Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Parque Estação Biológica, Av. W5 Norte (Final), Brasília 70770-917, DF, Brazil
- Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez
- Global Crop Diversity Trust, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Pedro Casimiro
- Direção Regional do Ambiente e Alterações Climáticas, Rua Cônsul Dabney, Colónia Alemã, Apartado 140, 9900-014 Horta, Portugal
- Néstor F. Chaves
- Estación Experimental Agrícola Fabio Baudrit Moreno, Universidad de Costa Rica, 3 km W of Catholic Church of Barrio San José, La Garita, Alajuela 183-4050, Costa Rica
- Adelaide S. Clemente
- Jardim Botânico, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, R. da Escola Politécnica 56, 1250-102 Lisboa, Portugal
- Christopher P. Cockel
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK
- Alexandra Davey
- Fauna & Flora International, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK
- Lucía De la Rosa
- Plant Genetic Resources Centre, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (CRF-INIA), CSIC, Finca La Canaleja, A2 km 36, 28800 Alcalá de Henares, Spain
- Daniel G. Debouck
- Alliance Bioversity International Center of Tropical Agriculture, km 17, Recta Cali-Palmira, Apartado Aéreo 6713, Cali 763537, Colombia
- Hannes Dempewolf
- Global Crop Diversity Trust, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Hiba Dokmak
- Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute, Tal Amara, Rayak P.O. Box 287, Lebanon
- David Ellis
- International Potato Center, Avenida La Molina 1895, La Molina, Lima 15023, Peru
- Aisyah Faruk
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK
- Cátia Freitas
- Banco de Sementes dos Açores, Rua de São Lourenço, nº 23 Flamengos, 9900-401 Horta, Portugal
- Sona Galstyan
- Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajyan of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Acharyan Street 1, Yerevan 0040, Armenia
- Rosa M. García
- Plant Genetic Resources Centre, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (CRF-INIA), CSIC, Finca La Canaleja, A2 km 36, 28800 Alcalá de Henares, Spain
- Krishna H. Ghimire
- National Agriculture Genetic Resources Centre, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur P.O. Box. 3605, Nepal
- Luigi Guarino
- Global Crop Diversity Trust, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Ruth Harker
- Natural England, Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green, York YO1 7PX, UK
- Roberta Hope
- Fauna & Flora International, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK
- Alan W. Humphries
- South Australian Research and Development Institute, Plant Research Centre, Waite Precinct, Gate 2b Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA 5064, Australia
- Nelissa Jamora
- Global Crop Diversity Trust, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Shakeel Ahmad Jatoi
- Bio-Resources Conservation Institute, National Agricultural Research Centre, Park Road, Islamabad 45500, Pakistan
- Manana Khutsishvili
- Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, 1 Botanikuri str., 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
- David Kikodze
- Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, 1 Botanikuri str., 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
- Angelos C. Kyratzis
- Agricultural Research Institute, Athalassa, P.O. Box 22016, Nicosia 1516, Cyprus
- Pedro León-Lobos
- Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Fidel Oteíza 1956, Pisos 12, Providencia, Santiago 8320000, Chile
- Udayangani Liu
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK
- Ram P. Mainali
- National Agriculture Genetic Resources Centre, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur P.O. Box. 3605, Nepal
- Afig T. Mammadov
- Genetic Resources Institute of Azerbaijan NAS, 155 Azadlig Avenue, Baku AZ1106, Azerbaijan
- Norma C. Manrique-Carpintero
- International Potato Center, Avenida La Molina 1895, La Molina, Lima 15023, Peru
- Daniele Manzella
- Independent Consultant, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Mohd Shukri Mat Ali
- Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), Persiaran MARDI-UPM, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
- Marcelo B. Medeiros
- Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Parque Estação Biológica, Av. W5 Norte (Final), Brasília 70770-917, DF, Brazil
- María A. Mérida Guzmán
- Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, km 21.5 Highway to the Pacific, Bárcena, Villa Nueva, Guatemala
- Tsira Mikatadze-Pantsulaia
- National Botanical Garden of Georgia, 1 Botanicuri Street, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
- El Tahir Ibrahim Mohamed
- Agricultural Plant Genetic Resources Conservation and Research Centre, Agricultural Research Corporation, Wad Medani P.O. Box 126, Sudan
- Álvaro Monteros-Altamirano
- Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Avenida Amazonas y Eloy Alfaro, Edificio MAG, Cuarto Piso, Quito 170518, Ecuador
- Aura Morales
- Centro Nacional de Tecnología “Enrique Álvarez Córdova”, km 33.5 Carretera a Santa Ana, San Andrés, Ciudad Arce, La Libertad, El Salvador
- Jonas V. Müller
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK
- John W. Mulumba
- Plant Genetic Resources Centre, National Agricultural Research Organization, Plot 2-4 Berkeley Road, Entebbe P.O. Box 40, Uganda
- Anush Nersesyan
- Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajyan of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Acharyan Street 1, Yerevan 0040, Armenia
- Humberto Nóbrega
- ISOPlexis—Centro de Agricultura Sustentável e Tecnologia Alimentar, Universidade da Madeira, Campus da Penteada, 9020-105 Funchal, Portugal
- Desterio O. Nyamongo
- Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation, Genetic Resources Research Institute, Nairobi P.O. Box 30148-00100, Kenya
- Matija Obreza
- Global Crop Diversity Trust, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Anthony U. Okere
- National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Moor Plantation, Ibadan PMB 5382, Nigeria
- Simone Orsenigo
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pavia University, Via Sant’Epifanio 14, 27100 Pavia, Italy
- Fernando Ortega-Klose
- Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Fidel Oteíza 1956, Pisos 12, Providencia, Santiago 8320000, Chile
- Astghik Papikyan
- Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajyan of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Acharyan Street 1, Yerevan 0040, Armenia
- Timothy R. Pearce
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK
- Miguel A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho
- ISOPlexis—Centro de Agricultura Sustentável e Tecnologia Alimentar, Universidade da Madeira, Campus da Penteada, 9020-105 Funchal, Portugal
- Jaime Prohens
- Institute for the Conservation and Improvement of Valencian Agrodiversity (COMAV), Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera 14, 46022 Valencia, Spain
- Graziano Rossi
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pavia University, Via Sant’Epifanio 14, 27100 Pavia, Italy
- Alberto Salas
- International Potato Center, Avenida La Molina 1895, La Molina, Lima 15023, Peru
- Deepa Singh Shrestha
- National Agriculture Genetic Resources Centre, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur P.O. Box. 3605, Nepal
- Sadar Uddin Siddiqui
- Bio-Resources Conservation Institute, National Agricultural Research Centre, Park Road, Islamabad 45500, Pakistan
- Paul P. Smith
- Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Descanso House, 199 Kew Road, Richmond TW9 3BW, UK
- Diego A. Sotomayor
- Subdirección de Recursos Genéticos, Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria, Av. La Molina 1981, La Molina, Lima 15024, Peru
- Marcelo Tacán
- Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Avenida Amazonas y Eloy Alfaro, Edificio MAG, Cuarto Piso, Quito 170518, Ecuador
- César Tapia
- Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Avenida Amazonas y Eloy Alfaro, Edificio MAG, Cuarto Piso, Quito 170518, Ecuador
- Álvaro Toledo
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla s/n, 00153 Roma, Italy
- Jane Toll
- Global Crop Diversity Trust, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Dang Toan Vu
- Plant Resources Center, Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, An Khanh, Hoai Duc, Ha Noi 131000, Vietnam
- Tuong Dang Vu
- Plant Resources Center, Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, An Khanh, Hoai Duc, Ha Noi 131000, Vietnam
- Michael J. Way
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK
- Mariana Yazbek
- The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Dalia Bldg, 2nd Floor Bashir El Kassar Street Verdun, Beirut 1108-2010, Lebanon
- Cinthya Zorrilla
- Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, 1400 Vienna, Austria
- Benjamin Kilian
- Global Crop Diversity Trust, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11141840
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 14
p. 1840
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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