Banana Bioversity International -- - challenge programme grant

Unlocking genetic diversity in crops for the resource-poor
Duration	The project has no determined duration. It started in 2003 and continues on an annually-renewable basis
Total grant
Donor	Generation Challenge Programme
Location	Hosted by CIMMYT, Mexico
Goal	Farmers in the developing world face agricultural challenges far different from their counterparts in industrialized countries. The Generation Challenge programme (GCP) aims to bridge that gap by using advances in molecular biology to harness the rich global heritage of plant genetic resources and create a new generation of crops that meet the needs of resource-poor people. The fast-moving fields of comparative genomics, molecular breeding, and bioinformatics are increasingly important steps on the path to achieving this worthy goal.
Brief description	The GCP brings together three sets of partners – CGIAR centres, advanced Research Institutes (ARIs) and NARS to deliver fruits of the Genomics Revolution to resource-poor farmers. The GCP has five subprogrammes (SP): • SP1: Genetic Diversity of Global Genetic Resources • SP2: Comparative genomics of Gene Discovery • SP3: Trait Capture for Crop Improvement • SP4: Genetic Resources, Genomic, and Crop Information Systems • SP5: Capacity Building The GCP works across four crop groups: • Cereals, including the grass forages • Root and tuber crops • Legumes, including forages • Musa is a special case in that as a monocot it has commonalities with the cereals and as a vegetatively propagated large accumulator of carbohydrates it has commonalities with the root and tuber crops. Thus different issues concerning Musa will be addressed with both crop groups GCP activities in Musa in 2004: SP1: • Identify germplasm sets (including mini-core collection) • Characterization of Musa genetic diversity using SSR markers • Characterization of Musa genetic diversity using IRAP markers • A high resolution detection of the Chloroplast DNA diversity adopted to Musa SP2: • Identification of 25 Conserved Orthologous Sequences (COS) markers targeted at Musa with other monocots and dicots • Analysis of cross hybridization of 50 cos-Egram (rice and sorghum) cDNAs and mapping 10 of them on banana • Identification of Musa genes involved in plant development • EST dataset of M. balbisiana, under dehydratation and water check • Comparative mapping within Musa acuminata SP4: • Workshop on bioinformatics analysis of Expressed Sequenced Tags (ESTs) • Integration of genomics data to the Musa germplasm information system GCP activities in Musa in 2005: SP1: • Genotyping composite Musa germplasm sets (cont.) • Validation of Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) as a platform for whole genome profiling in orphan crops • Population structure, phenotypic information and association studies in long generation crops • A high resolution detection of the Chloroplast DNA diversity adopted to Musa (cont.) SP2: • Musa genome frame-map construction and connection with the rice sequence • Validation of COS markers SP4: • Application of Moby for GCP consortium • Improvement of quality of existing GCP databases
Partners	• Agricultural research for developing countries, CIRAD, France • International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) • University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) • Institute of Experimental Botany in Prague (IEB), Prague, Czech Republic
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