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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
Dr Ruth Eastwood, CWR Project Co-ordinator, RBG Kew
2nd June 2016, University of Birmingham
• Project Overview
• Activities
• Take home resources
Outline
• Project Overview
• Activities
• Take home products
Outline
A portfolio of crop wild relatives are collected, protected and prepared
in a form that plant breeders can readily use to produce varieties
adapted to future climates.
Objective
• 29 crop genepools
InitialPartners RBG, Kew
CIAT
GCDTBirmingham Uni
InitialPartners Kew
CIAT
GCDT
Crop Wild Relatives
New
Crop Varieties
CWR Use Pipeline
5 Information
Crop Wild Relatives
New
Crop Varieties
1 Research
5 Information
• What are the CWR?
• Where are they found?
• Where do they need
collection?
Crop Wild Relatives
New
Crop Varieties
1 Research 2 Collecting
Seeds
Herbarium Vouchers
Data
Crop Wild Relatives
New
Crop Varieties
1 Research 2 Collecting
5 Information
Crop Wild Relatives
New
Crop Varieties
1 Research
4 Use
2 Collecting
5 Information
• Drought tolerance• Salt tolerance• Heat tolerance
• Disease resistance• Widening the genetic base of the crop
Crop Wild Relatives
New
Crop Varieties
1 Research
4 Use
2 Collecting
5 Information
Crop Wild Relatives 1 Research
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020Year
4 Use
5 Information
New
Crop Varieties
CWR Project
2 Collecting
2016
• Project Overview
• Activities
• Take home resources
Outline
1
CWR Inventory
• Digital data
• Herbarium data
• Genebank data
• Expert datasets
1
CWR Occurrence Database
1
CWR Gap Analysis
Where are CWR distributed?
1
CWR Gap Analysis
Where are collections needed?Where are CWR distributed?
CWR Gap Analysis – Global Collecting Need
1
CWR Partner Collecting Countries2
Partners2
Collecting Guides2
Collecting Guides – Species Profile2
Training2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziYP0RAqtHQ
Training2
2
Seed Collecting
Collections2
Aubergine/Potato
Alfalfa
RyeWheat
Barley
Carrot
Faba bean/Vetch
LentilApple
Pearl MilletBean
Rice/Africa RicePea
Finger Millet
Sorghum
Bambara Groundnut and
CowpeaOat
Banana/Plantain
Sweet Potato
Grass pea
CWR Project collections at the MSB to date (30th April 2016) ‐ Crop genepool breakdown
4Pre-Breeding - Aubergine
http://eggplantprebreeding.upv.es/
• Project Overview
• Activities
• Take home resources
Outline
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Castañeda-Álvarez, N. P., Khoury, C.K., Achicanoy, H.A., Bernau, V., Dempewolf, H., Eastwood, R.J., Guarino, L., Harker, R., Jarvis, A., Maxted, N., Müller, J.V., Ramirez-Villegas, J., Sosa, C.C., Struik, P.C., Vincent, H. & Toll, J. 2016. "Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives." Nature Plants 2.
Dempewolf, H.D., Eastwood, R.J., Guarino, L., Khoury, C.K., Müller, J.V. & Toll. J., 2014. Adapting agriculture to climate change: A global 10 year project to collect and conserve crop wild relatives. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 28, 369-377.
Vincent, H., Wiersema, J., Kell, S., Dobbie, S., Fielder, H. Castañeda-Álvarez, N. P., Guarino, L., Eastwood, R., León, B. & Maxted, N. 2013. "A prioritised crop wild relative inventory to help underpin global food security." Biological Conservation 167: 265-275.
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