Why alfalfa? Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is an important and broadly adapted forage crop that is planted for hay, pasture and silage in more than 80 countries on 30-35 million hectares. However,…
Crop Wild Relative Global Atlas (Distribution Data Map) Considering that the CWR Project made extensive progress toward collecting and conserving the identified priority CWR over its decade-long…
The Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) Project generated enormous amounts of data about the wild relatives collected, conserved, evaluated and pre-bred. It developed a number of databases and information…
2021 March Les chroniques du végétal Blog: Wild genes for wild climates 2020 December CIP: Research on sweet potato’s wild relatives reveals options for dealing with…
If you had to collect seeds from a particular species within a particular country, how would you know exactly where to go? How would you distinguish the species you were targeting from its close…
Collecting In Numbers 25 countries worldwide 47 collecting partnerships with institutions 4,500+ seed samples collected and conserved Pre-breeding and Evaluation In…
Why sweetpotato? The sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] is one of the world’s principal root and tuber crops. It is the world’s seventh most important food crop, with more than 133 million…
Why pigeonpea? Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.], the sixth most important edible legume crop, is grown on about 6 million hectares worldwide. India, Myanmar, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya…
