CRP on Dryland Cereals - DC
Overview: FP2-3.10 - Establish, confirm or enhance breeding populations and/or heterotic pools for target ecologies through appropriate pre-breeding interventions.
Leader: Alphonse Singbo, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT
Team
members: 3
Partner
organizations: 1
Budget 2024
USD : 0
Outputs: 3
Activity/Product Description
New sorghum hybrid parents and hybrids for targeted agroecologies in ESA, with tolerance or resistance to drought and Striga Steady pipeline established and available for the delivery of improved farmer-preferred varieties/hybrids for target ecologies.
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Outputs
| Code | Type | Output Name | Leader | Co-leader | Deliverables | Commodity | View |
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| FP2-3.10.1 |
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Test cross evaluation of new hybrids at Kiboko targeting dryland agroecologies of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Sudan. | Eric Manyasa | 0 | Sorghum | ||
| FP2-3.10.2 |
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Evaluate hybrids for adaptation and stability in dryland agroecologies of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Sudan. | Eric Manyasa | 0 | Sorghum | ||
| FP2-3.10.3 |
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Develop hybrid parents through introgression of novel genes for drought and Striga using wild sources. | Eric Manyasa | 0 | Sorghum |
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