Turok Amman Conference Jan 2010
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The document discusses the need for a regional strategy on plant genetic resources in West Asia and North Africa. It notes the important agricultural biodiversity in the region and the threats from climate change. It outlines the existing national plant genetic resource collections in countries of the region. The strategy would involve evaluating collections, strengthening regional collaboration, and conducting joint research on breeding climate-resilient crops and managing genetic diversity in situ and on-farm. Opportunities for collaboration include germplasm management, conservation, movement, capacity building, and research. A recent workshop discussed establishing a new regional plant genetic resources network.
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Turok Amman Conference Jan 2010
- 1. Towards a Regional strategy on plant genetic resources Jozef Turok Regional Director, Bioversity International El Tahir Ibrahim Mohamed Agricultural Research Centre, PGR Unit, Sudan
- 8. PGR accessions stored in genebanks in the countries (2006) 525 n.a. Algeria, INRAA 3132 n.a. Tunisia, MOA 328 600 Libya, ARC 259 900 Oman, MAF 2,571 3,000 Yemen, AREA 2,301 4,500 Jordan, NCARE 8,252 11,500 Syria, GCSAR 12,127 20,000 Egypt, NGB 15,405 22,000 Morocco, INRA 15,835 23,000 Pakistan, NARC 25,620 56,000 Turkey, AARI 49,079 60,000 Iran, NPGB Annex I crops All crops Holder
- 18. PGR transfers for climate change: experience from provenance trials (from Rehfeldt et al. 2002)
Editor's Notes
- … ongoing efforts to develop and implement a sustainable strategy for PGR conservation in the Region
- Many constraints such as replacement of traditional by commercial varieties, but most importantly… scarcity of water
- Genetic variation is key component of biodiversity
- With the objective of guiding investment decisions of the Trust. … focused on ex situ conservation in genebanks
- These outputs have been at least partly accomplished
- - … ICARDA genebank
- Two photos taken within days of one another (in Bangladesh and in Kenya). Unpredictability.
- Maps are from Burke et al recent paper. This map is for maize area. Dark blue grid cells have total overlap with climate of past 10 years, dark red cells have absolutely no overlap. Some countries – Tanzania have good overlap. Others – Mali, Niger, very poor overlap. WITHIN COUNTRY. Need to source material from other countries, not currently conserved in genebanks. Farmer varieties – landraces – with inherent genetic diversity, will be better able to adapt, and are very poorly represented in collections.
- Holistic approach to PGR conservation Particularly important when unpredictable changes of climate
- -data on ensuring effective collection of agrobiodiversity. Mapping of Phaseolus wild relative records, from many different data sources, combined with eco-geographic data. Zones in the map indicate places in which the species is likely to exist and no genebank accessions have been collected. Inset shows greatest species richness in Mexico.
- Increasing adaptedness through the choice of provenances that demonstrate high survival and/or phenotypic performance under given environmental conditions Provenance (common garden) field trials since 1840 Geographic patterns of variation Growth and survival rates strongly influenced by climate
- Prof. Ahmed Tawfik from Egypt elected as Chair.