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  • Wheat phenotyping workshop

    The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) extends a cordial invitation to participate in the training workshop "Wheat phenotyping for the identification of germplasm with high yield potential and tolerance to drought and heat". This will be held in CIMMYT HQ, Texcoco, State of Mexico, on September 28th, 2018 (from 9:00 – 14:00 hrs) as part of the II Plant Breeding Symposium México 2018 (https://trasmejoragen.wixsite.com/inicio) The objective of this workshop is to train participants in the phenotypic characterization of wheat germplasm. Research themes include: climate change; priority characteristics for wheat for Mexico; phenotyping of genetically diverse materials and in the ...

  • II Plant Breeding Symposium Mexico 2018

    MasAgro Biodiversity announces the II Plant Breeding Symposium Mexico 2018 which will be held on September 6 and 7, 2018 at the CIMMYT HQ, Texcoco. Mexico. This event belongs to the series of DuPont Plant Sciences Symposia. For more information please visit the website:https://trasmejoragen.wixsite.com/inicio

  • New video: Crop biodiversity for healthy, nutritious livelihoods

    Erratic weather, poor soil health, and resource shortages keep millions of maize and wheat farmers in developing countries from growing enough to feed their households and communities or to harvest a surplus to sell.

  • 3rd KDSmart app workshop

    The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) extends a cordial invitation to participate in the training workshop on the use of the KDSmart app. This will be held in Texcoco, State of Mexico, on December 20, 2017 (from 9:00 - 17:00 hrs).

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Catalogue

PRODUCTS CATALOGUE

PRODUCTS CATALOGUE

MasAgro Biodiversity, a component of the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro) program, focuses on the utilization and conservation of valuable genetic resources with genetic diversity protected in germplasm banks. This program has the purpose of accelerating the development of Varieties of maize and wheat that can meet the nutrition and nutritional demands of a growing population, facing the challenges of climate change.

By characterizing the genetic configuration of CIMMYT germplasm bank collections, the evaluation of priority characteristics – such as drought tolerance, high temperatures and some diseases – and the development of bioinformatics tools that streamline its analysis, MasAgro Biodiversity has Generated a “platform for the utilization of genetic resources” of maize and wheat.

This platform puts several products at the disposal of the scientific community. MasAgro Biodiversity also offers some services in order to promote equity in access and benefits of the use of maize and wheat diversity.

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  • Wheat Pre-breeding Drought Tolerant Lines


    These are wheat pre-breeding lines derived from top-crosses using one germplasm bank accession, crossed to an elite line, and then crossed to a second elite line. The accessions were selected as promising sources for use in breeding for drought tolerance, while CIMMYT wheat breeders recommended the elite lines as the best available lines. The experimental lines have been identified based on field trials under drought stress and well-irrigated conditions in Mexico, with mild selection to eliminate material susceptible to yellow rust or with serious agronomic weaknesses.

    Product details and features

     

    1. List of lines with phenotypic data is available including with checks, and elite lines as reference materials: Two pre-breeding lines provided 6 and 7 % grain yield advantage over best check variety, ‘Baj’, under drought stress environment. Under irrigated condition there was no significant difference among pre-breeding lines and the checks.https://data.cimmyt.org/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:11529/11038
    2. Description of genotypic data available November 2017
    3. Ability to sort and select lines by various traits, e.g. days to heading (DH), days to maturity (DM), Height (H) and Yield (Y) – available November 2017

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  • Comments

    These materials are suited for research or for large breeding programs interested in exploring exotic germplasm sources. These products can be used as drought tolerant bridging germplasm by interested researchers because two lines (IWPN-1 GID: 7687479 to 7642491) showed significant tolerance compared with the most tolerant check, ‘Baj’.

    Availability

    Currently available. Seeds of these entries are available from CIMMYT’s Germplasm Bank. They can be requested as international wheat pre-breeding nursery-1 (IWPN-1).


    Primary Users

    Wheat breeders for whom drought tolerance is a crucial priority trait; wheat breeders and geneticists investigating drought tolerance; researchers studying physiological mechanisms of drought tolerance; researchers engaged in gene discovery for drought tolerance.

     

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RESEARCH PORTFOLIO

RESEARCH PORTFOLIO

Genetic resources

Genetic resources

Capacity

Capacity

Data

Data

Pre-breeding Germplasm

Pre-breeding Germplasm

Knowledge

Knowledge

Software

Software

PHILOSOPHY OF OUR APPROACH

PHILOSOPHY OF OUR APPROACH

So many accessions, so few data!

Many genebanks resemble libraries that lack sufficiently informative catalogs. The advent of next-generation DNA-sequencing platforms has made it possible to characterize the genetic diversity conserved in entire genebanks.

Information management

Generating new data by itself is insufficient if it cannot be effectively disseminated, queried, summarized, visualized, and analyzed. Data generation, therefore, has to go hand-in-hand with providing intuitive software and analysis tools to deal with the rapidly expanding datasets describing maize and wheat genetic resources.

Pre-breeding

A ‘reformatting’ of the diversity in genebanks into a more breeder-ready format could lower the barriers to mobilize novel genetic variation into breeding programs, which in good part are due to the dependency of gene effects on genetic backgrounds.

Traits with complex genetic architecture

Some of the most important challenges to agriculture need to be addressed by manipulating genetically complex characters controlled by small-effect alleles (yield potential, heat and drought tolerance, etc.).

Collecting germplasm.

The availability of sufficient numbers of genebank accessions does not appear to be a factor limiting the use of novel genetic variation in breeding programs, and a new initiative will secure the global network of genebanks of humanity’s major food crops for future generations.