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Germplasm Acquisition and Distribution by CGIAR Genebanks

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https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9101296
doi:10.3390/plants9101296
 
Title Germplasm Acquisition and Distribution by CGIAR Genebanks
 
Creator Halewood, M
Jamora, N
Noriega, I
Anglin, N
Wenzl, P
Payne, T
Ndjiondjop, M N
Guarino, L
Kumar, P
Yazbek, M
Muchugi, A
Azevedo, V
Tchamba, M
Jones, C
Venuprasad, R
Roux, N
Rojas, E
Lusty, C
 
Subject Germplasm
Gene Bank
 
Description The international collections of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA)
hosted by 11 CGIAR Centers are important components of the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization’s global system of conservation and use of PGRFA. They also play an important
supportive role in realizing Target 2.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper analyzes
CGIAR genebanks’ trends in acquiring and distributing PGRFA over the last 35 years, with a
particular focus on the last decade. The paper highlights a number of factors influencing the Centers’
acquisition of new PGRFA to include in the international collections, including increased capacity
to analyze gaps in those collections and precisely target new collecting missions, availability of
financial resources, and the state of international and national access and benefit-sharing laws and
phytosanitary regulations. Factors contributing to Centers’ distributions of PGRFA included the
extent of accession-level information, users’ capacity to identify the materials they want, and policies.
The genebanks’ rates of both acquisition and distribution increased over the last decade. The paper
ends on a cautionary note concerning the potential of unresolved tensions regarding access and
benefit sharing and digital genomic sequence information to undermine international cooperation to
conserve and use PGRFA.
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Date 2020-10
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11678/1/plants-09-01296-v2.pdf
Halewood, M and Jamora, N and Noriega, I and Anglin, N and Wenzl, P and Payne, T and Ndjiondjop, M N and Guarino, L and Kumar, P and Yazbek, M and Muchugi, A and Azevedo, V and Tchamba, M and Jones, C and Venuprasad, R and Roux, N and Rojas, E and Lusty, C (2020) Germplasm Acquisition and Distribution by CGIAR Genebanks. Plants, 9 (10). pp. 1-29. ISSN 2223-7747