Phytosanitary management of ICARDA’s germplasm seed collections for safe movement and better future use

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dc.creatorKumari, Safaa
dc.creatorKumar, Lava
dc.creatorMoukahel, Abdulrahman
dc.creatorEl Miziani, Inaam
dc.date2023-12-14
dc.date2023-12-15T16:31:49Z
dc.date2023-12-15T16:31:49Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T16:03:50Z
dc.descriptionGermplasm exchange from international genebanks and breeding programs is vital for successful crop improvement programs. More than 10,000 different accessions of wheat, barley, lentil, faba bean, chickpea, grasspea, and pasture and forage crops are distributed by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) every year to around 70 countries. New accessions are added to the germplasm collections in the Center's genebank and utilized in the breeding programs. Recent years have witnessed an increasing global concern about the loss of plant genetic resources because of conflicts, human pandemic diseases, extreme weather events, pest and disease outbreaks, and natural calamities such as earthquakes, floods, etc., which led to disrupting access to germplasm and undermining social protection systems. Safety duplication of germplasm collections held in genebanks in other institutions, including international, regional, and national genebanks, as well as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV), is one of the essential measures to safeguard germplasm and also to replenish any lost accessions and resume use and distribution of seeds to users internationally. Germplasm distribution procedures are conducted per International Plant Protection Convention phytosanitary regulations to avoid the transboundary spread of seed-borne pests and pathogens. The ICARDA’s Seed Health Laboratory exercises maximum efforts to maintain the “phytosanitary clean” health status of germplasm during regeneration, conservation, distribution and ensure compliance with phytosanitary regulations in international germplasm distributions to guarantee minimum loss of genetic resources. These efforts include the development of new methods to detect and manage seed-borne pathogens. An increase in global awareness to preserve germplasm for current and future use is crucial to combat climate challenge, malnutrition, and food insecurity.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/135444
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/121448
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCAB International
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKumari, S. G, P. L. Kumar, A. Moukahel and I. El-Miziani. 2023. Phytosanitary management of ICARDA’s germplasm seed collections for safe movement and better future use. CABI Reviews, 18: 1. https://doi.org/10.1079/cabireviews.2023.0045
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectplant genetic resources
dc.subjectcgiar
dc.subjectbarley
dc.subjectfaba bean
dc.subjectwheat
dc.subjectlentil
dc.subjectchickpea
dc.subjectalfalfa
dc.subjectgrass pea (lathyrus sativus)
dc.subjectvetch (vicia spp.)
dc.subjectdurum wheat
dc.subjectsoft wheat
dc.subjectmedics
dc.subjectaegilops
dc.subjecttrifolium
dc.subjectrye
dc.subjectseed health testing
dc.subjectpests and diseases
dc.subjectdisease detection
dc.subjectgermplasm health
dc.subjectseedborne diseases
dc.subjectfield pea (pisum sativum)
dc.subjectwild wheat
dc.subjectwild lentil
dc.subjectwild barley
dc.titlePhytosanitary management of ICARDA’s germplasm seed collections for safe movement and better future use
dc.typeJournal Article

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