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Research Program Dryland Cereals Vincent Vadez on behalf of Stefania Grando and the Research Program
CCER meeting, ICRISAT, Patancheru 11 November 2013
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Outline
• Overview of the program
• Anchor to the CRP-Dryland Cereals
• HQ linkage to SSA programs
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Our Crops
• Essential staple for poor smallholder farmers
• Sorghum - 33 million ha in sub-Saharan Africa (76%) and Asia (24%)
• Millets – >30 million ha – 60% in Africa
• Grain – food (55%), feed (33%), industrial uses
• Stover – dry season fodder for livestock
• Nutritious grains
• Market opportunities
• Sweet sorghum
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Trends in demand
• Population growth
• Health food
• Livestock feed and fodder
• Industrial uses
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Main Directions
• Multi-purpose crops
– Food and Nutritional security
– Biofortification
– Feed and fodder quality
– Sweet sorghum
• Resilient crops
• Seed systems
• Strategic partnership
• Enhance genetic gains
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• Overview of the program
• Anchor to the CRP-Dryland Cereals
• HQ linkage to SSA programs
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• ICRISAT’s Strategic Plan to 2020
• CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals.
• Six of the seven Product Lines of the CRP-Dryland Cereals
• Biofortification component of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
• CCAFS and Dryland Systems
• Strategic Partnership
Our Research Agenda
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Pearl millet for Africa and Asia
• PL2. Improving food security for subsistence smallholder farmers in East and West Africa with productive and nutritious pearl millet food and fodder production technologies
• PL4. Improving nutritional security with productive and nutritious finger millet production technologies for East and Southern Africa
• PL6. Improving food security and income with productive, nutritious multi-purpose pearl millet hybrid production technologies for East Africa and South Asia
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Sorghum for Africa and Asia
• PL1. Supporting farmers’ transition from subsistence to market orientation with productive, nutritious, photoperiod-sensitive sorghum production packages for multiple uses in West Africa
• PL3. Drought tolerant, highly productive, multi-use sorghum varieties for food and processing uses in the dry lowlands of East Africa
• PL7. Multi-purpose post-rainy season sorghum hybrid production technologies for improving food and fodder availability in the driest region of South Asia
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Focus countries
SA WCA ESA
Millet India (11.3 m ha) Niger (6.9) Nigeria (4.1) Mali (1.5) Burkina Faso (1.4) Senegal (1.0)
Sudan (2.2) Uganda (0.5)
Sorghum India (7.7) Nigeria (5.7) Burkina Faso (1.8) Mali (1.1)
Sudan (6.3) Ethiopia (1.6) Tanzania (0.9) Mozambique (0.5)
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• Overview of the program
• Anchor to the CRP-Dryland Cereals
• HQ linkage to SSA programs
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Dryland Cereal research at HQ for SSA
• Genomics
• Phenomics for trait donors (biotic / abiotic constraints)
• Biofortification
• Modern breeding approaches
• Crop simulation modeling
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Genomics • Pearl Millet Genome
Sequencing
• 500-600 lines re-sequenced (Asia, ESA and WCA)
• Pre-sequencing of finger millet
• Genotyping – by – sequencing
• Genome Wide Association Studies
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• Pearl millet ICTP 8203Fe first biofortified crop variety officially released in India
• Large variability for grain Fe and Zn in sorghum landraces, hybrid parents, and commercial cultivars
• Database in public domain (http://hdl.handle.net/11038/10081)
• Rapid phenotyping (XRF method)
• WCA and ESA
Biofortification
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Lysimetre
Millet
HP
LP
Contrasting pearl millet varieties
Objective : Characterize
contrasting pearl
millet varieties under low-
P and water stress
Phenotyping for drought and Low P – Lysimetric facilities
Objective: Assess water
use under drought
Select donors for breeding
HQ Niger
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
152 Germplasm tested
TE
(g
kg
-1 w
ate
r tr
an
sp
ire
d)
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Isxxx – accessions with high water extraction capacity Isxxx – accessions with high TE CSM63E and Lata3 – BCNAM pop recurrent parents
Cluster 1a
Cluster 1b
Cluster 2
Cluster 1c
Cluster 3
Cluster 4a
Cluster 4b
Joined development of BCNAM populations
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200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
yie
ld (
kg
/ha) Inefficient
Efficient
Stress severity
Mild stress Severe stress
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Characterization of stress scenarios
Simulation of stress effects on yield
major stress patterns
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0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600
thermal time (oD)
S/D
vegetative
pre-flowering
post-flowering
post-flowering relieved
mild
Stress scenarios
Which traits confer advantage
in the most frequent environment?
Effects on yields
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• Genomic tools (QTL, genome sequencing, MABC, GS, MAS)
• Harnessing genetic resources
• Phenotyping platforms • Breeding data management
and analysis platforms
Tools to enhance breeding efficiency
• Trait based hybrid parents (>800 A-/B- pairs and more than 1000 R-lines)
• Pearl Millet Hybrids based on IC-Patancheru bred hybrid parents, at Miwaleni, Tanzania, 2012 (30-65% yield gain)
• Hybrid Parent Research Consortium for Africa
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• Strengthening Management of Pearl Millet Downy Mildew In Sub-Saharan Africa- A Training Course
• Training course on pearl millet hybrid parent improvement and seed production (36% from Africa)
• Training course on sorghum hybrid parent improvement and seed production (38% from Africa)
• Training course on genomics and molecular breeding (71% from Africa) • …
Training of technicians and scientists
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Thank you!
ICRISAT is a member of the CGIAR Consortium