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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

Dr Ruth Eastwood, CWR Project Co-ordinator, RBG Kew

2nd June 2016, University of Birmingham

• Project Overview

• Activities

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• Project Overview

• Activities

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A portfolio of crop wild relatives are collected, protected and prepared

in a form that plant breeders can readily use to produce varieties

adapted to future climates.

Objective

• 29 crop genepools

InitialPartners RBG, Kew

CIAT

GCDTBirmingham Uni

InitialPartners Kew

CIAT

GCDT

Crop Wild Relatives

New

 Crop Varieties

CWR Use Pipeline

5 Information

Crop Wild Relatives

New

 Crop Varieties

1 Research

5 Information

• What are the CWR?

• Where are they found?

• Where do they need

collection?

Crop Wild Relatives

New

 Crop Varieties

1 Research 2 Collecting

Seeds

Herbarium Vouchers

Data

Crop Wild Relatives

New

 Crop Varieties

1 Research 2 Collecting

5 Information

Crop Wild Relatives

New

 Crop Varieties

1 Research

4 Use

2 Collecting

5 Information

• Drought tolerance• Salt tolerance• Heat tolerance

• Disease resistance• Widening the genetic base of the crop

Crop Wild Relatives

New

 Crop Varieties

1 Research

4 Use

2 Collecting

5 Information

Crop Wild Relatives 1 Research

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020Year

4 Use

5 Information

New

 Crop Varieties

CWR Project

2 Collecting

2016

• Project Overview

• Activities

• Take home resources

Outline

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CWR Inventory

• Digital data

• Herbarium data

• Genebank data

• Expert datasets

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CWR Occurrence Database

1

CWR Gap Analysis

Where are CWR distributed?

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CWR Gap Analysis

Where are collections needed?Where are CWR distributed?

CWR Gap Analysis – Global Collecting Need

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CWR Partner Collecting Countries2

Partners2

Collecting Guides2

Collecting Guides – Species Profile2

Training2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziYP0RAqtHQ

Training2

2

Seed Collecting

Collections2

Aubergine/Potato

Alfalfa

RyeWheat

Barley

Carrot

Faba bean/Vetch

LentilApple

Pearl MilletBean

Rice/Africa RicePea

Finger Millet

Sorghum

Bambara Groundnut and 

CowpeaOat

Banana/Plantain

Sweet Potato

Grass pea

CWR Project collections at the MSB to date (30th April 2016) ‐ Crop genepool breakdown

4Pre-Breeding - Aubergine

http://eggplantprebreeding.upv.es/

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Castañeda-Álvarez, N. P., Khoury, C.K., Achicanoy, H.A., Bernau, V., Dempewolf, H., Eastwood, R.J., Guarino, L., Harker, R., Jarvis, A., Maxted, N., Müller, J.V., Ramirez-Villegas, J., Sosa, C.C., Struik, P.C., Vincent, H. & Toll, J. 2016. "Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives." Nature Plants 2.

Dempewolf, H.D., Eastwood, R.J., Guarino, L., Khoury, C.K., Müller, J.V. & Toll. J., 2014. Adapting agriculture to climate change: A global 10 year project to collect and conserve crop wild relatives. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 28, 369-377.

Vincent, H., Wiersema, J., Kell, S., Dobbie, S., Fielder, H. Castañeda-Álvarez, N. P., Guarino, L., Eastwood, R., León, B. & Maxted, N. 2013. "A prioritised crop wild relative inventory to help underpin global food security." Biological Conservation 167: 265-275.

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