CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals - GLDC

Overview: FP4-2 - Breeding pipelines

FP4-1 - FP4-3


Leader Jan Debaene, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT
Coleader: Shiv Kumar Agrawal, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDA

Team members: 66
Partner organizations: 22

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Activities/Products:  83


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Innovations

Rapid generation advancement (RGA): enabling speed breeding in chickpea, and lentil

Reporting year: 2020

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

Reporting year: 2020

Minimum Standards on Iron and Zinc Established in Pearl Millet National Cultivar Release Policy (India)

Reporting year: 2018

Rapid generation advancement (RGA): enabling speed breeding in chickpea, and lentil

Reporting year: 2019

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

Reporting year: 2019

Biofortified Cultivars of Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals Development, Mainstreamed and Adopted in India Improving Food Security and Wellness

Reporting year: 2018

Kabuli Chickpea Variety - GLK 17301 (ICCV 171301)

Reporting year: 2021

Developing Target Product Profiles for six crops in Asia by taking inputs from all stakeholders and establishing quantified attributes for developing new products to replace current best cultivars

Reporting year: 2021

Chickpea Variety - NBeG 857 (ICCV 13116)

Reporting year: 2021

Chickpea Kabuli Variety - GLK 1617 (ICCV 15303)

Reporting year: 2021

Target Product Profiles of ICRISAT mandate Crops in Eastern and Southern Africa

Reporting year: 2021

Finger millet inbred variety Kambulanje for cultivation in low to mid-altitudes in Malawi and Uganda

Reporting year: 2020

Finger millet inbred variety Katope for cultivation in low to mid-altitudes in Malawi and Kenya

Reporting year: 2020

Pearl millet inbred variety TSFB 15-4 for cultivation in India

Reporting year: 2020

New sorghum variety Jaicar Nutrigaze for fodder yield and digestibility and resistance to biotic stress factors in the dry mid-altitudes of India

Reporting year: 2020

Pearl millet inbred variety TSFB 15-8 for cultivation in India

Reporting year: 2020

Pearl millet inbred variety IKMV18001 for cultivation in the Sudanian Zone

Reporting year: 2020

Pearl millet hybrid variety IKMH18001 for cultivation in the Sudanian Zone

Reporting year: 2020

Pearl millet inbred variety IKMV18004 for cultivation in the Sudanian Zone

Reporting year: 2020

Chickpea inbred variety NBeG 452 for cultivation in the dry lowlands in India

Reporting year: 2020

Chickpea inbred variety Phule Vishwaraj for cultivation in dry lowlands in India

Reporting year: 2020

Chickpea inbred variety Eshete for cultivation in dry mid-altitudes in Ethiopia and India

Reporting year: 2020

Groundnut inbred variety ICGV 06189 for cultivation in low humidity mid-altitude areas in India.

Reporting year: 2020

Groundnut inbred variety Chhattisgarh Mungfali-1 for cultivation in low to mid altitudes in India

Reporting year: 2020

Sorghum variety Telangana Jonna 1 for cultivation in dry mid-altitudes of India for grain yield, with biotic stress resistance, and high digestibility

Reporting year: 2020

ICEAP 00554-1 (Egerton Mbaazi 4): a new pigeonpea medium maturing cultivar with drought tolerance and fusarium wilt resistance, for Kenya and Zambia

Reporting year: 2019

ICEAP 00557-1 (Egerton Mbaazi 3): a new pigeonpea medium maturing cultivar with drought tolerance and fusarium wilt resistance, for mid and high altitude areas of Kenya

Reporting year: 2019

Drought tolerant, and aphid resistant groundnut cultivar: ICGV-SM 08528 (AMENA 2018) for Mozambique

Reporting year: 2019

Chickpea cultivar: ICCIL 01029 (Geletu)

Reporting year: 2019

UFM 19-1 (KNE 689): a new finger millet high yielding variety for Mid Altitude Medium rainfall in Kenya and Tanzania

Reporting year: 2019

High oleic groundnut cultivar, Girnar 4 (ICGV 15083) available in India

Reporting year: 2019

High oleic groundnut cultivar, Girnar 5 (ICGV 15090) available in India

Reporting year: 2019

Drought tolerant, and high yielding groundnut cultivar: ICGV-SM 03520 (AMM – 018) for Mozambique

Reporting year: 2019

Drought tolerant, and high yielding groundnut cultivar: ICGV-SM 03530 (Mapupulo 2018) for Mozambique

Reporting year: 2019

High yielding Pearl millet hybrid: BHB 1602 for drought prone environments of north-west India

Reporting year: 2019

Iron and zinc-biofortified Pearl millet cultivar: ICMH 1301 (Phule Mahashakti) for India

Reporting year: 2019

Iron and zinc-biofortified Pearl millet cultivar: ICMH 1505 (GHB 1225) for India

Reporting year: 2019

New forage sorghum hybrid - Punjab Sudax Chari 4 developed using ICRISAT-bred female parent ICSA 94012 was released by Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

Reporting year: 2019

Chickpea cultivar: ICCV 08112 (BG 3062)

Reporting year: 2019

Chickpea cultivar: ICCV 04305 (Koka)

Reporting year: 2019

Chickpea cultivar: ICCV 07108

Reporting year: 2019
  Activities/Products
    
Code Activity/Product Name Leader Co-leader Total Outputs Output types View
FP4-2.1 Ascochyta blight resistant chickpea breeding lines with medium to long duration, high grain yield and desired agronomic and seed traits Aladdin Hamwieh Moez Amri 1
FP4-2.10 Chickpea breeding lines with short- to medium-duration, resistance to fusarium wilt, tolerance to drought and heat stresses, high grain yield and desired agronomic and seed traits Srinivasan Samineni Pooran Gaur 1
FP4-2.11 Develop chickpea breeding lines with enhanced tolerance to post-emegence herbicides Srinivasan Samineni Pooran Gaur 1
FP4-2.12 Development of parental lines and heterotic hybrids in early and medium maturing pigeonpea Prakash I Gangashetty 1
FP4-2.13 Identification of restorers on A 8 cytoplasm Prakash I Gangashetty Hingane Anupama 1
FP4-2.14 Diversification of CMS sources Prakash I Gangashetty Hingane Anupama 1
FP4-2.15 Elite pigeonepa breeding lines tested against bruchids Jaba Jagdish Hingane Anupama 1
FP4-2.16 Screening and evaluation of red podded and cream seeded genotypes for Pod borer and pod fly tolerance NVPR Ganga Rao Patrick Okori 1
FP4-2.17 Identification of maintainers for African germplasm and search for heterotic gene pools Prakash I Gangashetty NVPR Ganga Rao 1
FP4-2.18 Use of interspecific approaches for dual purpose, aflatoxin resistant and drought tolerant groundnut Daniel Fonceka Jean-Francois Rami 1
FP4-2.19 Development of prominent parents and landrace accessions with charcoal rot resitance and their deployment in breeding Habyarimana Ephrem Rajan Sharma 1
FP4-2.2 Development of breeding lines with high protein, Fe and Zn contents and assess effects of heat stresses on these traits Moez Amri Aladdin Hamwieh 1
FP4-2.20 Development of new populations for anthracnose resistance and phosphorus efficiency Aboubacar Toure Baloua Nebie 1
FP4-2.21 Development of striga resistant varieties for WCA Aboubacar Toure Baloua Nebie 1
FP4-2.22 Development of striga resistant varieties for ESA Eric Manyasa Damaris Achieng Odeny 2
FP4-2.23 MAGIC population developed using improved postrainy sorghum cultivars with drought tolerance Habyarimana Ephrem Jaganathan Jayakumar 1
FP4-2.24 Advancing and identification of varieties from BC1F4 populations with drought tolerant traits including stay green, chlorophyll contain and transpiration efficiency Baloua Nebie Aboubacar Toure 1
FP4-2.25 Development of new F2 populations for grain yield and nutritional quality traits (Grain protein digestibility, lysine content Aboubacar Toure Baloua Nebie 1
FP4-2.26 Development of new populations with brown mid-rib for high quality fodder and grain yield Aboubacar Toure Baloua Nebie 1
FP4-2.27 Develop hybrid parents (A/B/R) for dry lowlands and sub-humid mid altitude agroecologies based on regional germplasm Eric Manyasa Ashok Kumar Are 1
FP4-2.28 Development of new seed-parents for hybrid development Aboubacar Toure Baloua Nebie 1
FP4-2.29 Accelerated development and testing of pearl millet molecular breeding lines for striga, downy mildew resistance and Micro nutrient quality in NARS breeding programs Prakash I Gangashetty Damaris Achieng Odeny 1
FP4-2.3 Development, advancement of segregating populations (F1-F5), and performance evaluation of advanced breeding lines with short to medium duration range and moderate to high resitance to ELS, Rust and GRD and good market qualities Patrick Okori James Mwololo 1
FP4-2.30 To conduct early generation testing trials at target sites to identify good with combiners in hybrid parental lines of pearl millet to move ahead promising breeding materials SK Gupta 1
FP4-2.31.1 High-Fe/Zn traits introgression SK Gupta 1
FP4-2.32 Biofortified parents and hybrids for arid zone in India SK Gupta 1
FP4-2.33 Develop and advance populations for blast. Blast populations exist from F2 to AYT, these will be advanced. At the same time populations will be developed to feed into the pipeline Henry Fred Ojulong Damaris Achieng Odeny 1
FP4-2.34 Populations for striga developed using new sources of resistance; the exisiting populations advanced. Striga populations exist from F2 to F4, these will be advanced. At the same time populations will be developed to feed into the pipeline Henry Fred Ojulong Damaris Achieng Odeny 1
FP4-2.35 Populations for drought developed using new sources of resistance; the exisiting populations advanced. Drought populations exist from F2 to PYT, these will be advanced. At the same time populations will be developed to feed into the pipeline Henry Fred Ojulong Damaris Achieng Odeny 1
FP4-2.36 Development of blast resistant finger millet genotypes Sobhan Sajja Pooran Gaur 1
FP4-2.37 Screening of germplasm accessions and advanced breeding lines for drought and heat tolerance Sobhan Sajja Pooran Gaur 1
FP4-2.38 Screening of germplasm accessions and advanced breeding lines for identification of genotypes with high Ca, Fe and Zn concentration Sobhan Sajja Pooran Gaur 1
FP4-2.39 Develop elite high yielding soybean varieties resistant to rust and frogeye adapted to Nigeria, Zambia and similar environments Godfree Chigeza Christabell Nachilima 1
FP4-2.4 Develop populations, advance generation based on SNP and NIRS; and lines that combine high oliec, foliar fungal disease resistant, and drought tolernat lines advanced to NPT and MLT's Pasupuleti Janila TV Murali 2
FP4-2.40 Identification of resistance sources to heat and their molecular characterization Shiv Kumar Agrawal Moez Amri 1
FP4-2.41 Mainstreaming biofortification in lentil breeding program and association mapping Shiv Kumar Agrawal Moez Amri 1
FP4-2.42 Develop elite high yielding soybean varieties with good seed size and resistant to lodging and shattering adapted to Nigeria, Zambia and similar environments Godfree Chigeza Christabell Nachilima 1
FP4-2.43 Develop new drought/early populations using existing and new parental sources and advance existing early generations (F1-F4) and advanced lines into multilocation testing Baloua Nebie Damaris Achieng Odeny 1
FP4-2.44 Development and testing of improved high grain Fe and Zn hybrids in MLTs and farmers fields Habyarimana Ephrem Ashok Kumar Are 1
FP4-2.45 Explore variabilty among biofortified materials developed under HarvestPlus. 120 biorfortified lines acquired from HQ biofortification program tested for Fe and adaptation; for identification of potential lines for variety release and for use as parents Henry Fred Ojulong SK Gupta 1
FP4-2.46 To assist PC, AICPMIP, India in exercise on estimation of genetic gains of hybrid pearl millet in India, support in identification of hybrids, producing seed of old hybrids from public sector, planning and conductance of trials SK Gupta 1
FP4-2.47 Integration of validated molecular markers (SNPs) for oil quality selection to enance efficiency and accuracy Haile Desmae Manish K Pandey 1
FP4-2.48 Development of cleistogamous elite lines Prakash I Gangashetty Hingane Anupama 1
FP4-2.49 Identifying phenotypic plasticity for flowering time adaptation in super-early pigeonpea Prakash I Gangashetty Hingane Anupama 1
FP4-2.5 Development, advancement of segregating populations (F2-F5), and performance evaluation of advanced breeding lines with short to medium duration range and moderate to high resitance to ELS Haile Desmae Pasupuleti Janila 1
FP4-2.50 Development of water-logging resistant cultivars of pigeonpea Prakash I Gangashetty Abhishek Rathore 1
FP4-2.51 Evaluation of drought tolerant lines derived Mozambiquan germplasm NVPR Ganga Rao Patrick Okori 1
FP4-2.52 Screening of about 100 diverse and potential lines having consumer prefered trais for high protein, Zn and Fe NVPR Ganga Rao Hingane Anupama 1
FP4-2.53 Crossing released varieties with cleisto-germplasm NVPR Ganga Rao Hingane Anupama 1
FP4-2.54 Improving productivity, resilience and sustainability of sorghum based cropping systems through genetic diversification Louis Marie Raboin Nofou Ouedraogo 1
FP4-2.55 Breeding climate resilient sorghum varieties for sustainable intensification Michel Vaksmann 4
FP4-2.56 Identification of resistance sources to stemphylium blight and their molecular characterization Shiv Kumar Agrawal Seid Ahmed Kemal 1
FP4-2.57 Development of pigeonpea lines with high Fe and Zn content Prakash I Gangashetty Vania Azevedo 1
FP4-2.58 Screening of new breeding lines  for grain mold resitance in white and colored grain back grounds Rajan Sharma Ashok Kumar Are 1
FP4-2.59 Development of improved cultivars and seed and pollen parents with shoot fly resistance using MABC Ashok Kumar Are Jaba Jagdish 1
FP4-2.6 Development, advancement of segregating populations (F2-F5), and performance evaluation of advanced breeding lines for drought tolerance Haile Desmae Pasupuleti Janila 1
FP4-2.60 Accelerated development and testing of sorghum molecular breeding lines for striga, stemborer resistance and Micronutrient quality in NARS breeding programs Ignatius Angarawai Baloua Nebie 5
FP4-2.61 Validate genomic selection (GS) model using rad-GBS and t-GBS for use in hybrid breeding in pearl millet, conductance of set of hybrid trials in target ecologies for GS validation SK Gupta 1
FP4-2.62 Implementation of Forward breeding for drought tolerance in selection process in hybrid parent breeding program in pearl millet SK Gupta Rakesh Srivastava 1
FP4-2.63 Development, advancement of segregating populations (F2-F5), and performance evaluation of advanced breeding lines for drought tolerance and good market qualities Patrick Okori James Mwololo 1
FP4-2.64 Identification of machine harvestable lentils with herbicide tolerance Shiv Kumar Agrawal Seid Ahmed Kemal 1
FP4-2.65 Association mapping for biotic stresses in chickpea Aladdin Hamwieh Seid Ahmed Kemal 1
FP4-2.66 Develop populations and map QTL for tolerance to drought, cold and tolerance Aladdin Hamwieh Moez Amri 1
FP4-2.67 Breeding modernisation implementation and engagement with CGIAR platforms (Seed processing facility) Sobhan Sajja Harish Gandhi 1
FP4-2.68 Breeding modernisation implementation and engagement with CGIAR platforms (Planting optimisation) Abush Tesfaye Abebe Ousmane Boukar 1
FP4-2.69 Breeding modernisation implementation and engagement with CGIAR platforms (Rust screening optimization) Abush Tesfaye Abebe Godfree Chigeza 1
FP4-2.7 New population development using validated parents obtained from India to select for high oil and oleate Haile Desmae Pasupuleti Janila 1
FP4-2.70 Breeding modernisation implementation and engagement with CGIAR platforms (Screening optimization for abiotic stresses) Ousmane Boukar Godfree Chigeza 1
FP4-2.71 Deploying RGA protocol on a RIL population by taking 5 to 6 generations in a year Srinivasan Samineni 0
FP4-2.72 Standardization of crossing technique in finger millet Sobhan Sajja 1
FP4-2.73 Development and advancement of finger millet populations for drylowlands Henry Fred Ojulong 0
FP4-2.74 Development and advancement of finger millet populations for baking and malting industry Henry Fred Ojulong 0
FP4-2.75 Development and testing for pearl millet materials high in Fe and Zn content. Henry Fred Ojulong 0
FP4-2.76 Development of high biomass breeding materials/cultivars of pearl millet along with better forage quality traits and their evaluation under target ecologies with partners SK Gupta 0
FP4-2.77 Development of disease resistant (DM and Blast) parental lines (seed and restorer parents) in agronomically superior backgrounds SK Gupta 0
FP4-2.78 Stage2: Early Development-Progeny rows and Preliminary variety trials of near fixed lines of soybean selected in Stage 1 with high yielding potential, large seeded and tolerant to moderate drought for evaluations at two sites in each country-Nigeria and Zambia Godfree Chigeza 0
FP4-2.79 Stage2: Early Development-Progeny rows and Preliminary variety trials of near fixed lines of soybean selected in Stage 1 potentially high yielding and promiscous nodulating (BNF) soybean varieties for evaluations at two sites in each country-Nigeria and Zambia Godfree Chigeza 0
FP4-2.8 Develop and evaluate early maturing lines tolerant to drought and partial tolerance to heat regime Asnake Fikre Woldemedhin NVPR Ganga Rao 1
FP4-2.80 Introgress BMR trait into adapted sorghum forage lines Eric Manyasa Ashok Kumar Are 1
FP4-2.81 Developing nutrient dense chickpea lines that promote quality breeding Asnake Fikre Woldemedhin 0
FP4-2.82 Implementation of Rapid Generation Advancement (RGA) in sorghum for increasing genetic gain Habyarimana Ephrem Mahendar Thudi 1
FP4-2.83 Developing new seed parents and restorers for hybrid breeding in West Africa 19 Prakash I Gangashetty SK Gupta 2
FP4-2.AGD 442 Develop bold seeded lines adapted for commercial production in Ethiopia Asnake Fikre Woldemedhin NVPR Ganga Rao 1
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4.2.a Robust and responsive global to national breeding systems produce and deliver novel varieties and allied innovations at appropriate scale and scope development outcome 0
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