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Phytosanitary management of ICARDA’s germplasm seed collections for safe movement and better future use

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Title Phytosanitary management of ICARDA’s germplasm seed collections for safe movement and better future use
 
Creator Kumari, Safaa
Kumar, Lava
Moukahel, Abdulrahman
El Miziani, Inaam
 
Subject food security
plant genetic resources
cgiar
barley
faba bean
wheat
lentil
chickpea
alfalfa
grass pea (lathyrus sativus)
vetch (vicia spp.)
durum wheat
soft wheat
medics
aegilops
trifolium
rye
seed health testing
pests and diseases
disease detection
germplasm health
seedborne diseases
field pea (pisum sativum)
wild wheat
wild lentil
wild barley
 
Description Germplasm exchange from international genebanks and breeding programs is vital for successful crop improvement programs. More than 10,000 different accessions of wheat, barley, lentil, faba bean, chickpea, grasspea, and pasture and forage crops are distributed by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) every year to around 70 countries. New accessions are added to the germplasm collections in the Center's genebank and utilized in the breeding programs. Recent years have witnessed an increasing global concern about the loss of plant genetic resources because of conflicts, human pandemic diseases, extreme weather events, pest and disease outbreaks, and natural calamities such as earthquakes, floods, etc., which led to disrupting access to germplasm and undermining social protection systems. Safety duplication of germplasm collections held in genebanks in other institutions, including international, regional, and national genebanks, as well as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV), is one of the essential measures to safeguard germplasm and also to replenish any lost accessions and resume use and distribution of seeds to users internationally. Germplasm distribution procedures are conducted per International Plant Protection Convention phytosanitary regulations to avoid the transboundary spread of seed-borne pests and pathogens. The ICARDA’s Seed Health Laboratory exercises maximum efforts to maintain the “phytosanitary clean” health status of germplasm during regeneration, conservation, distribution and ensure compliance with phytosanitary regulations in international germplasm distributions to guarantee minimum loss of genetic resources. These efforts include the development of new methods to detect and manage seed-borne pathogens. An increase in global awareness to preserve germplasm for current and future use is crucial to combat climate challenge, malnutrition, and food insecurity.
 
Date 2023-12-14
2023-12-15T16:31:49Z
2023-12-15T16:31:49Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Kumari, S. G, P. L. Kumar, A. Moukahel and I. El-Miziani. 2023. Phytosanitary management of ICARDA’s germplasm seed collections for safe movement and better future use. CABI Reviews, 18: 1. https://doi.org/10.1079/cabireviews.2023.0045
1749-8848
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135444
https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/cabireviews.2023.0045
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CAB International
 
Source CABI Reviews