Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents

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 exp...

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Published in:	Plants (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 14; p. 1840
Main Authors:	Eastwood, Ruth J., Tambam, Beri B., Aboagye, Lawrence M., Akparov, Zeynal I., Aladele, Sunday E., Allen, Richard, Amri, Ahmed, Anglin, Noelle L., Araya, Rodolfo, Arrieta-Espinoza, Griselda, Asgerov, Aydin, Awang, Khadijah, Awas, Tesfaye, Barata, Ana Maria, Boateng, Samuel Kwasi, Magos Brehm, Joana, Breidy, Joelle, Breman, Elinor, Brenes Angulo, Arturo, Burle, Marília L., Castañeda-Álvarez, Nora P., Casimiro, Pedro, Chaves, Néstor F., Clemente, Adelaide S., Cockel, Christopher P., Davey, Alexandra, De la Rosa, Lucía, Debouck, Daniel G., Dempewolf, Hannes, Dokmak, Hiba, Ellis, David, Faruk, Aisyah, Freitas, Cátia, Galstyan, Sona, García, Rosa M., Ghimire, Krishna H., Guarino, Luigi, Harker, Ruth, Hope, Roberta, Humphries, Alan W., Jamora, Nelissa, Jatoi, Shakeel Ahmad, Khutsishvili, Manana, Kikodze, David, Kyratzis, Angelos C., León-Lobos, Pedro, Liu, Udayangani, Mainali, Ram P., Mammadov, Afig T., Manrique-Carpintero, Norma C., Manzella, Daniele, Mat Ali, Mohd Shukri, Medeiros, Marcelo B., Mérida Guzmán, María A., Mikatadze-Pantsulaia, Tsira, Mohamed, El Tahir Ibrahim, Monteros-Altamirano, Álvaro, Morales, Aura, Müller, Jonas V., Mulumba, John W., Nersesyan, Anush, Nóbrega, Humberto, Nyamongo, Desterio O., Obreza, Matija, Okere, Anthony U., Orsenigo, Simone, Ortega-Klose, Fernando, Papikyan, Astghik, Pearce, Timothy R., Pinheiro de Carvalho, Miguel A. A., Prohens, Jaime, Rossi, Graziano, Salas, Alberto, Singh Shrestha, Deepa, Siddiqui, Sadar Uddin, Smith, Paul P., Sotomayor, Diego A., Tacán, Marcelo, Tapia, César, Toledo, Álvaro, Toll, Jane, Vu, Dang Toan, Vu, Tuong Dang, Way, Michael J., Yazbek, Mariana, Zorrilla, Cinthya, Kilian, Benjamin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Basel MDPI AG 13-07-2022 MDPI
Subjects:	Agriculture Alfalfa Bambara groundnut Climate change Crop diseases crop wild relatives Crops ex situ conservation Expeditions Flowers & plants Food plants Food resources Food security Genetic engineering Genetic resources Germplasm Grass peas Plant breeding plant genetic resources Plant resources seed collection Seeds Sorghum Wild type
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Summary:	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.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Current address: School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. cE3c Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, C2, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal. Current address: Subdirección de Recursos Genéticos, Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria, Av. La Molina 1981, La Molina, Lima 15024, Peru. Current address: Independent Researcher, Hassocks, Brighton BN6 8PZ, UK. Current address: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN, UK. Current address: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 00153 Rome, Italy. Current address: International Potato Center, Avenida La Molina 1895, La Molina, Lima 15023, Peru.
ISSN:	2223-7747 2223-7747
DOI:	10.3390/plants11141840