CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems - FISH

Overview: FP1-1.002 - New productivity and resilience traits identified and incorporated into fish breeding programs

FP1-1.001 - FP1-1.003


Leader: John Benzie, WorldFish - WF
Coleader: Trong Quoc Trinh, WorldFish - WF

Team members: 3
Partner organizations: 4

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Outputs: 7

  Activity/Product Description
    
Tilapia is important worldwide and particularly in FISH target countries in Africa and south Asia. Key to the success of adapting tilapia to be more productive in a range of environments is developing new resilience traits. The proposed research activities assess three sets of characteristics from which new resilience traits can be developed: disease resistance, increased feed efficiency and performance under aerobic stress. In 2019 analysis will be undertaken of data collected during exposure of families to tilapia lake virus (TiLV) in 2018, the analysis of data on feed efficiency collected in experiments in 2018 and undertaking experiments to measure the aerobic exercise efficiency of GIFT tilapia. The measured performance for each trait will be assessed using molecular markers to test the utility of genomic selection to improve these traits. As these traits will be of global importance, the work will use the GIFT improved strain at WorldFish HQ in Malaysia. In each of these cases the improvements are a step towards producing new technologies that help to achieve sustainable intensification of aquaculture production. They will assist in generating increased productivity, income, employment, food and nutrition security, while decreasing environmental impact.
  Atlas
    
  Outputs
    
Code Type Output Name Leader Co-leader Deliverables Commodity View
FP1-1.002.Feed_efficiency Practical feed efficiency phenotyping method refined. Hugues de Verdal Trong Quoc Trinh 3 Fish
FP1-1.002.Genomic_Strategy Genomic selection strategy for new traits developed John Benzie Ross Houston 1 Fish
FP1-1.002.GIFT_disease Genomic relationship with disease in GIFT Ross Houston Trong Quoc Trinh 6 Fish
FP1-1.002.GIFT_exercise Genomic relationship with exercise in GIFT Arjan Palstra Trong Quoc Trinh 5 Fish
FP1-1.002.GIFT_Genomic_Disease Genomic relationship with diseases in GIFT studied Ross Houston Trong Quoc Trinh 1 Fish
FP1-1.002.GIFT_Genomic_E New Knowledge on genomic relationship with exercise in GIFT is produced Arjan Palstra Trong Quoc Trinh 1 Fish
FP1-1.002.GIFT_Genomic_Feed Genomic relationship with feed efficiency traits in GIFT studied Charles Rodde Trong Quoc Trinh 3 Fish
  Training
    
Training Type Title Subject From To
Individual Degree Netherlands PhD on Genomic architecture of selection for adaptation to changing environments in Tilapia Genomic architecture of selection for adaptation to changing environments in Tilapia 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
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