Strengthening the impact of plant genetic resources through collaborative collection, conservation, characterisation, and evaluation: a tribute to the legacy of Dr Clive Francis
Jens D. Berger A B H , Steve Hughes C , Richard Snowball D , Bob Redden E , Sarita Jane Bennett F , Jon C. Clements B and Fawzy Nawar G
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A CSIRO Plant Industry, Private Bag No. 5, Wembley, WA 6913, Australia.
B Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
C South Australian Research and Development Institute, GPO Box 397, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
D Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, Baron-Hay Court, South Perth, WA 6155, Australia.
E Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection, Grains Innovation Park, The Department of Primary Industries, Private Bag 260, Horsham, Vic. 3401, Australia.
F Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.
G International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, PO Box 466, Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic.
H Corresponding author. Email: Jens.Berger@csiro.au
Crop and Pasture Science 64(4) 300-311 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP13023
Submitted: 14 January 2013 Accepted: 21 March 2013 Published: 13 August 2013
Abstract
This paper is a tribute to the legacy of Dr Clive Francis, who directly and indirectly collected >14 000 accessions across 60 genera of pasture, forage, and crop species and their wild relatives around the Mediterranean basin, Eastern Africa, and Central and South Asia from 1973 to 2005. This was achieved by a collaborative approach that built strong interactions between disparate organisations (ICARDA, VIR, CLIMA, and Australian genebanks) based on germplasm exchange, conservation and documentation, capacity building, and joint collection. These activities greatly strengthened Australian pasture, forage, and crop genebanks, and led to widespread germplasm utilisation that has waned in the last 5 years, reflecting changing priorities among industry funding bodies and research providers. This situation must be reversed, given the pivotal role genetic resource collections must play to broaden the genetic and adaptive base of plant breeding, to meet the challenge of feeding an increasing population in a depleting resource base.
Because the use of germplasm subsets that facilitate phenotyping will stimulate wider utilisation of genetic resources, we discuss the application of core collection and germplasm selection through habitat characterisation/filtering in Australian collections. Both are valid entry points into large collections, but the latter has the advantage of enabling both trait discovery and investigation of plant adaptation, and because it is based on a priori hypothesis testing, it increases understanding even when the trait of interest is not identified.
Additional keywords: core collection, FIGS, habitat characterisation, plant genetic resources.
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