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Groundnut Seed Production and Distribution Through Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Southern Region of Tanzania
Southern Groundnut Platform (SGP) was established in 2016 to enhance seed access and adoption of improved groundnut varieties by farmers. The platform serves all districts in Lindi and Mtwara regions and Tundu...
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Cowpea Seed Innovation Platform: A Hope for Small Seed Producers in Mali
Cowpea is a food crop of great importance to the people of Mali due to its contribution to food security, improvement of producers’ incomes, a price that is higher than that of cereals, and an important role i...
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Kolokani Groundnut Innovation Platform Activities and Achievements Through TL III Project in Mali
Groundnut productions have been declining in Mali in spite of several new improved varieties being released, the key problem being inadequacy of the seed supply system. To solve this problem, Kolokani MSP was ...
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Impacts of Cowpea Innovation Platforms in Sustaining TL III Project Gains in Ghana
Over the past decades, farm-level yields of cowpea have remained low (0.6–0.8 t/ha) compared to what is observed on research fields (1.8–2.5 t/ha). Lack of farmer access to quality seeds of improved varieties ...
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Impact Assessment of Develo** Sustainable and Impact-Oriented Groundnut Seed System Under the Tropical Legumes (III) Project in Northern Nigeria
Tropical Legumes III project as a development intervention focused on enhancing smallholder farmers’ access to seeds of improved groundnut varieties using multi-stakeholder platforms. Open Data Kit was used to...
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Innovation Platform for Catalyzing Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties to Smallholder Farmers
Innovation platform resolves systemic problems and unlock opportunities for farmers and other stakeholders along commodity value chains. It brokers change in a wide variety of areas involving technological bar...
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Potato-Growing History in Russia. Categories and Classes/Generations of Potato Seed and the System of Its Production Stages
This chapter presents the history of potato breeding in Russia and overall trends in the development of selective breeding and seed production. The authors identified categories and classes/generations of pota...
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Organized Farmers Towards Chickpea Seed Self-Sufficiency in Bundelkhand Region of India
Smallholder partner farmers under TL-III project were organized into four registered Farmers’ Seed Societies for addressing the challenge of constrained availability of quality seed of improved chickpea variet...
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Population Genomics of Phaseolus spp.: A Domestication Hotspot
The genus Phaseolus includes five domesticated species. Collectively, Phaseolus beans are produced across all inhabited continents under a variety of environments, mainly for dry beans but also green pods. Buildi...
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Coalescent Models of Demographic History: Application to Plant Domestication
A detailed understanding of the origins of domesticated species is important for many disciplines. Recent advances in this field have been made with the use of genome-wide polymorphisms and improved statistica...
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Population Genomics of Sweet Watermelon
Sweet watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. vulgaris) belongs to the genus Citrullus Schrad and has six known species including Citrullus naudinianus, C. colocynthis, C. ecirrhosus, C. rehmii, C. amarus, and C. muco...
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Genomics of Plant Gene Banks: Prospects for Managing and Delivering Diversity in the Digital Age
Gene bank collections are at a pivotal point in their history. We review their development and explain how their role is changing with new technologies in computation and analytics and the widespread applicati...
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Population Genomics of Pearl Millet
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br., syn. Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone)], one of the major staple food for around 100 million people across Africa and India, is a so-called “orphan” crop. Recently, s...
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Population Genomics and Molecular Breeding of Sorghum
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is a multipurpose crop worldwide, and it is used as a source of food, fodder, feed, and fuel. It is currently considered a promising alternative crop for generating bioenergy from suga...
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Population Genomics and Genomics-Assisted Trait Improvement in Tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze)
“Tea” is undoubtedly one of the most widely consumed beverage processed from young shoots of tea [Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] plant. The popularity of tea is attributed to its taste, aroma, and multiple hea...
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Population Genomics Along With Quantitative Genetics Provides a More Efficient Valorization of Crop Plant Genetic Diversity in Breeding and Pre-breeding Programs
The breeding efforts of the twentieth century contributed to large increases in yield but selection may have increased vulnerability to environmental perturbations. In that context, there is a growing demand f...
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Enhancing Crop Breeding Using Population Genomics Approaches
The use of genetic information to predict the value of individuals in plant breeding populations began about 40 years ago. The original paradigm was to identify genomic regions with outsize influence on a trai...
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Population Genomics of Organelle Genomes in Crop Plants
Chloroplast and mitochondria are specialized structure located in the cytoplasm of plant cells which possess their own genomes and are usually transmitted by one parent only. Organelle DNA markers have been wi...
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Pangenomics in Crop Plants
Identifying diversity at many scales is the keystone to understand how genomes evolved and plants are so adaptable, even if they are under extreme constraint. Understanding the processes that create diversity ...
