FP4 - Variety and Hybrid Development

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals - GLDC

Overview: FP4 - Variety and Hybrid Development

FP3 - FP5

Leader Pasupuleti Janila, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT

Team members: 109
Partner organizations: 15

Budget 2025
USD : 54,600

Clusters: 5

Description

FP4 will support breeding of new varieties and hybrids that underpin sustainable intensification, diversification and increased productivity. CGIAR-originated varieties have in the past accounted for 35% (SSA) and 40-45% (South Asia) of annual yield gains. Without these CGIAR varieties in developing economies, production would have been 7-8% less, food prices risen by 35-66%, food imports increased by 5% and caloric intake reduced by 4-7%242 .

FP4’s target is to reduce the current yield gap of target crops to 30%, when integrated with effective land, labor and agrochemical use. To meet this target, a demand-driven breeding and deployment agenda that leverages CGIAR legacy investments (Phase I of CRP and others) and other complementary investments and partnerships will be implemented. FP4 will be streamlined and geared towards the development of cross FP-defined breeding product profiles: (i) that result in efficient breeding cycles, harnessing heterosis, hybrid and doubled-haploid technologies where relevant, increased diversity and deployment of shuttle breeding; (ii) increased precision, automation and efficiency in data generation, greater mechanization and automation of breeding activities, and decision making through optimal phenotyping, open data warehousing and digital solutions that allow seamless use of Big Data; (iii) undertake inclusive (gender and poverty) and efficient seed systems research that leverages agronomy and complementary knowledge and innovations (in concert with FP1-FP3, FP5).

Key Documents

Flagship 4 report of 2018
Flagship 4 report as per the Template

CRP-GLDC FP4 2019 Report
CRP-GLDC FP4 Report based on the SMO template for 2019.

FP4 milestones post-2020 POWB midyear review
This document presents the updated milestones for CRP-GLDC FP4 after the midyear review of the 2020 POWB, with added consideration to effects of the global pandemic on their attainment.

CRP-GLDC FP4 Released varieties_ICRISAT
CRP-GLDC FP4 Released varieties_ICRISAT

Atlas

Key Results

Blog Outcome Impact Case Report Policy

Innovations

Adoption of improved Groundnut Varieties in the Tropical Legume Project (TL III) across the project states in Nigeria

Reporting year: 2021

TPE and beyond: laying the base for modern geography-specific crop improvement methodologies across CGIAR and partnering institutions

Code	Cluster Name	Leader	Co-leader
FP4-0	GLDC Flagship Program 4 Leadership and Coordination	Pasupuleti Janila
FP4-1	Environmental characterization and phenotyping	Vincent Vadez	Safaa G. Kumari
FP4-2	Breeding pipelines	Jan Debaene	Shiv Kumar Agrawal
FP4-3	Product testing and release	Godfree Chigeza	Gilles Trouche
FP4-4	Science of scaling seed technologies	Chris Ojiewo	Ronnie Vernooy