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2. The Trust is
“an essential element in of the Funding
Strategy of the International Treaty in
relation to ex situ conservation and
availability of plant genetic resources for
food and agriculture”
Relationship with the Treaty
3. Objective
Ensure long-term conservation and availability of PGRFA
• Safeguard globally important ex situ collections
• Promote a rational, efficient and sustainable global
system for ex situ conservation
7. Distribution
“About 60% of the food crop
area planted to improved
varieties is occupied by
varieties bred using genetic
materials from the CGIAR”
8. CGIAR Research Program -
Genebanks
Objective Indicator
Current
status
Target
Use of crop and
tree diversity is
informed and
facilitated
Number distinct
accessions distributed
within CGIAR
61,645 100,000 distinct
accessions are
disseminated
between 2012 &
2021 to users
outside the CGIAR.
Use
Number distinct
accessions distributed
outside CGIAR
27,538
Total number of samples
distributed
131,181
16. Lessons
Regeneration & duplication: benefits both
national and global
Strengthened links between
genebanks, farmers and breeders at national
level
Stronger links between national and
international genebanks
Clonal crops remain a significant problem
17. Over to Partners
NPGRL, The Philippines
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
(SPC)
International Rice Research Institute
18. National Plant Genetic Resources Laboratory
• assembled 36,322 accessions of over 400
species of important and potentially useful
agricultural crop species and their relatives
relatives
19. GCDT-funded Projects
• Regeneration of Sweetpotato, Cowpea and Pigeon
Pea Collections
• Regeneration of Yam, Taro, Maize and Rice
Collections
• Regeneration of Yam (in vitro) Collection
• Conserving banana diversity for use in perpetuity:
strengthening the network of collections to improve access
to wider diversity and safeguard threatened banana cultivars
21. Main Achievements
Crop Number of accessions
regenerated and characterized
Number of
accessions sent
for safety
duplication
Target Actual
Sweetpotato 340 313 (284- in vitro) 0
Vigna spp 1125 756 754
Pigeon pea 254 18 18
Taro 52 52 (52- in vitro) 52
Yam 97 97(94- in vitro) 0
Maize 1230 710 534
Rice 500 479 448
Yam( in vitro) 218 183 0
Banana 30 30 30
Protocol for decontamination developed
23. Important Lessons Learned
• Immediate processing and sending of
germplasm materials for safety duplication
• Regeneration of the rest of the germplasm
conserved at NPGRL be given priority to
rescue unique accessions
• Importance of complementation of
conservation approaches (eg. Field and in
vitro)
24. Additional GCDT support
• Reintroduction in in vitro of yam and
sweetpotato accessions lost due to fire
• Shipping of regenerated materials for safety
duplication to SPC (taro), AVRDC
(Vigna, pigeon pea), CIMMYT (maize) and
Svalbard
25. Regenerated germplasm of seed crops
now duplicated at Svalbard
Total: 1739 accessions
Cajanus cajan (18), Oryza sativa L. (448), Vigna mungo (2), Vigna
radiataL. (400), Vigna umbellata(59), Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. cv. grp.
unguiculata (160), Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis (133), Zea mays L. (534)
27. Capacity building
• 3 BS students conducted their theses research
using the materials
• Results of the yam in vitro project- presented
in the Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology
meeting
• Technical assistance on yam tissue culture
provided to other researchers
30. Over to Partners
NPGRL, The Philippines
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
(SPC)
International Rice Research Institute
31. SPC Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees
(CePaCT), Suva, Fiji
CePaCT - Pacific genebank, officially opened in 2009, conserves
Pacific crop diversity and the largest global collection of taro in
vitro . Trust provides long term grant for conservation and
regeneration of aroid and yam collections. The Treaty (ITPGRFA)
facilitates access and distribution of this material
32. WHAT CePaCT does ?
• CONSERVATION – conserves the important
(traditional & economical) crops and plants of
the Pacific region
• maintains them as tissue cultures
• IMPORTATION – of new improved (new
varieties) that are climate ready tolerant (to
drought, salt, waterlogged, acid soils), high
yielding with good taste, nutrient-
rich, resistant to certain pests and diseases
• VIRUS TESTING – so crops are free of viruses
and safe for distribution
• DISTRIBUTION - to the SPC member
countries & project partners safely
• RESEARCH – to improve storage and
production of planting material
• TECHNICAL SUPPORT – capacity
building thru CG collaboration /regional
training on basic tissue culture methods and
source of information on relevant
biotechnology
33. SPC collaborative programs
• Collaboration /partnership within and outside of the region
• Sharing of expertise on in vitro conservation with other
countries eg Indonesia, Philippines
• Collaboration with CG Centres eg sourcing of improved and
climate resilient material
• Safety duplication and regeneration of the Pacific traditional
varieties – aroids, yam, breadfruit, banana
• Repatriation of traditional varieties that have been lost in the
field – Fiji, Palau, PNG etc
• Conservation of Samoas unique Niu afa coconut variety using
polymotu approach
• Impact of taro leaf blight disease, 1993 – eg Samoas
traditional taro varieties now conserved in SPC CePaCT, FIJI
35. 35
GERMPLASM DISTRIBUTION 2005 – June 2013
• 56,041 plantlets distributed
• 45 countries including Europe,
Africa, Caribbean and Asia (under
SPC EU International Network for
Edible Aroids (INEA) project)
• Crops distributed – alocasia,
bananas, bele, breadfruit,
cassava, Irish potato, kava (Fiji
only) and ginger (Fiji only), sweet
potatoes, taro, vanilla and yams
• Annex 1 material distributed
under SMTA for all exchanges. All
records kept by SPC as a provider
36. 36
COUNTRIES RECEIVED TISSUE CULTURE MATERIAL
FROM CePaCT (2005 – June 2013)
FROM THE PACIFIC REGION
• 23 Pacific Island countries and territories - American
Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French
Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New
Caledonia, Niue, Norfolk Is, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua
New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon
Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna
OUTSIDE OF THE PACIFIC REGION (mainly TLB resistant
(C.esculenta) varieties assisting African and other regions
• Belgium, Burkina Faso, Costa
Rica, Cuba, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Nicaragua, N
igeria, Philippines, South Africa, Trinidad and
Tobago, Germany, Portugal, Cameroon, Haiti, US, Bangladesh, Congo,
Mauritius
37. Over to Partners
NPGRL, The Philippines
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
(SPC)
International Rice Research Institute
The Trust is also working on a. rescuing threatened collectionsb. researching how to conserve some crops better (particularly difficult-to-conserve crops like cassava, yams and taro)c. evaluating accessions held by genebanks, so that they are better understood and therefore more useful to breedersd. working on information systems to ensure that genebanks are better run, and also that plant breeders can access both information and accessions from genebanks around the worlde. to avoid disasters such as the slide shown earlier from the Philippines, ensuring that collections are duplicated for safety,f. and ensuring that a safety back-up is stored in the safest seed storage on the planet - the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
NOTE – this is Gates plus, and includes dups from Obj 6 and collecting Actually received as of 13/9/13 is lower c 40k no results from ICARDA, CIP, AVRDC, SPC..Norgen, CGN, …. ICRISAT west Africa