Principal Investigators of ongoing GCP projects

Updated 19th October 2009

Below are the PIs of ongoing GCP projects. In addition, this link leads to people who have previously served as GCP PIs. For more details, and to view GCP projects and PI by Subprogramme, please consult our Project briefs and Project updates.

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No.   PI Institution   Project No Title  SP Type  Duration  Budget
(as per proposal)		  Crop/region/trait
  Abbad, A Fouad
INRA, Morocco G4007.05

Bridging genomics,
genetic resources and breeding to improve
wheat and barley production in Morocco

 3  Commissioned Jan 2007–Dec 2008 $200,000
 Wheat, barley/Africa/Various traits
  Acosta-Gallegos, Jorge INIFAP, Mexico G4008.11

Dry bean improvement and marker assisted selection for diseases and abiotic stresses in Central America and the Caribbean

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2010 $382,590 Bean/Drought and disease resistance/Latin America and Caribbean
  Alves, Alfredo  EMBRAPA G3005.03

Identifying the
physiological and genetic traits that make
cassava one of the most drought-tolerant
crops

 3 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Dec 2008
 $867,145 Cassava /Africa, Latin America/Drought tolerance
  Arnaud, Elizabeth Bioversity  G4008.20

Management of the GCP Central Registry and the creation and maintenance of templates for data storage in repositories 

 4 Commissioned May 2008─Dec 2008 $140,000 Various crops, regions and traits

Baum, Michael 

ICARDA  G3005.17 Allele mining based on non-coding regulatory SNPs in barley germplasm  1 Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Jun 2008 $899,000 Barley/Various regions/Tolerance to drought, frost, cold and
salinity stresses
   

Baum, Michael

ICARDA G4005.01.01 Genotyping of composite germplasm set: Barley  1 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2005 with NCE to Oct 2007 $125,000 Barley/Various regions and traits
  Balazs, Ervin
ARI–HAS G4007.24

Seed smoke treatment
to favour germination under water-stressed
conditions

 3  Special Dec 2007–Nov 2009 $24,000 Maize/Africa/Drought tolerance
  Bertioli, David
 EMBRAPA G3005.05

Unlocking the genetic
diversity in peanut’s wild relatives with
genomic and genetic tools

 3  Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Jun 2008 $898,235  

Peanut/Africa, Asia/Drought tolerance, disease resistance

  Billot, Claire Agropolis−CIRAD G4008.22

Methodology development for reconstruction of Genealogies based on Haplotypes related to geographic patterns (HaploPhyle: graphical haplotype network in the light of external data)

 4  Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2008 $152,540 Various crops, regions and traits
  Billot, Claire Agropolis−CIRAD G4005.55.08 Development of reference molecular marker kits to analyse diversity of germplasm for the year 1 GCP crops--Sorghum  5  Commissioned Jan 2005-Dec 2005 with NCE to Dec 2006 $6,000 Sorghum, various regions and traits
  Bink, Marco  WUR G4006.35 Support for existing
projects in SP1 on germplasm data analysis
(GDA)		  4 Commissioned Jan 2006–Dec 2008 $205,000 Various crops, regions and traits
  Bink, Marco  WUR G4006.11 Establishment of training materials for a course in association study/linkage disequilibrium mapping (TM_AS)  5 Commissioned Jan 2006--Dec 2006  $12,500 Various crops, regions and traits

Blair, Matthew

CIAT G4005.01.10 Genotyping of composite germplasm set: Bean  1 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2005 with NCE to Oct 2007 Information not available (GCP 'Cluster' project) Bean/Various regions and traits
  Blair, Matthew CIAT G4005.11 Legume mutant resource development  2 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2006 with NCE to Oct 2007  $200,000 Common bean/Africa, Latin America/Various traits
  Blair, Matthew  CIAT  G4005.17 Integrative genetic
framework for comparative QTL mapping
for drought tolerance in beans (CIAT and
Agropolis−CIRAD)		  2  Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2006 with NCE to Dec 2007  $200,000 Beans/Africa, Latin America/Drought tolerance
   Blum, Abraham  Consultant G4007.25

Development of a GCP
Drought Phenotyping Network

 3  Commissioned Dec 2007–Feb 2008
 $22,500 Various crops/Africa, Asia, Latin America/Drought tolerance
  Blumwald Eduardo
 University of California, Davis, USA G3008.03

Delayed Senescence and Drought Tolerance in Rice

 2  Competitive Oct 2008–Sep 2011 $851,896 Rice/Various regions/Drought tolerance
  Bruskiewich, Richard
IRRI G4005.22 Development of
Generation CP domain models ontology		  4 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2008
 $704,174 Various crops, traits and regions 
  Bustamam, Masdiar ICABIOGRAD G4007.13.06 Capacity-building à la
carte 2007 - Enhancing capacity of ICABIOGRAD
in phenotyping and molecular analysis to develop
elite rice lines suitable to Indonesian uplands		  5 Commissioned Jul 2007–Jul 2009
 		 $79,709 Rice/Asia/Blast resistance

Cairns, Jill

IRRI G4008.05
 Connecting performance under drought with genotypes through phenotype associations  1 Commissioned Jan 2008–Dec 2010 $467,676 Rice/Asia/Drought tolerance
  Chapman, Scot  CSIRO G4005.20

Optimising markerassisted
breeding systems for drought
tolerance in cereals through linkage of
physiological and genetic models

 3 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2006 with NCE to May 2008
 $260,000 Maize, wheat/Various regions/Various traits
  Chiulele, Rogerio University of Maputo, Mozambique G4008.43

Improve cowpea productivity for marginal environments in Mozambique

 5 Commissioned Jul 2008─Jun 2010
 $68,592 Cowpea/Africa/Drought tolerance
  Chunwongse,  Julapark BIOTEC G4007.04

Association mapping of
downy mildew resistance in elite maize inbred
lines in Thailand

 3 Commissioned Aug 2007–Jul 2009
 $60,464 Maize/Asia/Mildew resistance
  Cisse, Ndiaga
ISRA G4008.39.03

Capacity-building à la carte 2008—Improving capacity for phenotyping for abiotic and biotic stress in Senegal

 5 Commissioned April 2008─March 2010 $79,232
 Cowpea/Africa/Various traits
  Collins, Anthony
  CIP  G4005.27 High Performance
Computing Facilities for the GenerationCP		  4 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2008 $384,999 Various crops, regions and traits
  Danquah, Eric University of Ghana G4008.37

PhD in Plant Breeding Training at the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement

 5 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2008 $667,054 Various crops, traits and regions
  Davenport, Guy  CIMMYT G4006.08 Data analysis support
for existing projects in SP2 with emphasis on
integrating results across gene expression and
QTL mapping experiments
 		  4 Commissioned Jan 2006–Dec 2008 $412,300
 Various crops, regions and traits
  Drabo, Issa INERA G4008.39.02

Capacity-building à la carte 2008—Improving capacity for phenotyping for abiotic and biotic stress in Burkina Faso

 5 Commissioned April 2008─March 2010 $76,383 Cowpea/Africa/Various traits
de Vicente, Carmen  GCP  G4005.04
 Assesing DarTs as a genome-wide scanning technology  1  Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2005 with NCE to Oct 2007 $300,000  Rice, sorghum/Various regions and traits
  de Vicente, Carmen  GCP  G4005.08 Population structure,
phenotypic information and association
studies in long-generation crops		  1  Commissioned Duration: Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Oct 2007 $277,536

Cassava, potato yam, banana, plantain, and coconut/Variousregions/
Various traits

  de Vicente, Carmen
  GCP G4007.19 Kick-off meeting of the teams involved in the GCP Competitive Call 2006 – August 2007, Texcoco, Mexico  5 Commissioned Jan 2007–Dec 2007
 $160,000 Various crops, regions and traits
  de Vicente, Carmen GCP G4008.40

Workshop on Reference sets of food crop germplasm for international collaboration

 5 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2008 $120,000 Various crops, traits and regions
  Dixon, John  CIMMYT G4008.36

Getting the focus right: food crops and smallholder constraints

 5 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009  $20,000 Various crops, regions and traits
Dreisigacker, Susanne  CIMMYT G4008.03 Precision phenotyping of the GCP spring wheat reference sample for drought  1  Commissioned Jan 2008–Dec 2010 $153,600 Wheat/Various regions and traits
  Dumet, Dominique  IITA G4005.02 Supporting distribution of reference germplasm (IITA)  1   Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Oct 2007

30,000

Various crops, regions and traits
  Dumet, Dominique  IITA  G4006.29
 Preparing IITA-cassava reference germplasm for distribution and association mapping  1 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Oct 2007  $50,150 Cassava/Africa, Latin America/Drought and disease tolerance
  Edmeades, Greg Consultant  G4007.25

Development of a GCP
Drought Phenotyping Network

 3 Commissioned Dec 2007–Feb 2008 $22,500  Various crops/Africa, Asia, Latin America/Drought tolerance
  Egesi, Chiedozie
NRCRI G4007.13.02 Capacity-building
à la carte 2007 - Marker-aided development of
nutritionally enhanced cassava for Nigeria*		  5 Commissioned Jul 2007–Jul 2009
 $97,644 Cassava/Africa/Various traits
  Egesi, Chiedozie NRCRI G4008.26:

A cassava breeding Community of Practice in Africa for accelerated production and dissemination of farmer-preferred cassava varieties resistant to pests and diseases

 5 Commissioned Jan 2008–Dec 2010 $651,525 Cassava/Africa/ Disease and pest resistance
  Ehlers, Jeff UC−Riverside G4008.13

Improving Drought Tolerance Phenotyping in Cowpea

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008─Dec 2010; $450,836 Cowpea/Drought tolerance/Africa
  Ferguson, Morag
 IITA G4005.70.02 Tapping
crop biodiversity for the resource poor in
East and Central Africa (ICRISAT and IITA)		  5 Commissioned July 2005–June 2008; no-cost extension to Jun
2009		 $138,000 Cassava/Africa/Various traits
  Fregene, Martin CIAT G4005.01.12
 Genotyping of composite germplasm set: Cassava  1 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Oct 2007 Information not available (GCP 'Cluster' project) Cassava/Various regions and traits
  Fulton, Theresa Cornell University G4005.53
 Training materials/Use of molecular markers in efficient crop impro: marker-assisted breeding  5 Commissioned

$12,000

Various crops, regions and traits
Gethi, James KARI G4008.33 Drought tolerance phenotyping of the GCP maize inbred line reference set  1 Commissioned  Jan 2008–Dec 2010  $257,301 Maize/Drought tolerance/Africa
  Gethi, James KARI G4007.13.01 Capacity-building à la
carte 2007 – Capacity-building for characterising
maize for waterstress tolerance at KARIKatumani		  5 Commissioned Jul 2007–Jul 2009
 $48,943
 Maize/Africa/Waterstress tolerance
  Ghesquiere, Alain Agropolis−LGDP/IRD  G3007.01 Interspecific bridges that give full access to the African rice allele pool for enhancing drought tolerance of Asian rice  1 Competitive Aug 2007–Jul 2009 $669,000 Rice/Africa, Asia/Drought tolerance
  Ghislain, Marc CIP  

Development and
genotyping of a composite germplasm sample
of potato

 1  Commissioned Jan 2006−Dec 2006 $15,000 Potato/Various regions and traits
  Ghislain, Marc  CIP G4005.55.07 Development
of reference molecular marker kits to analyse
diversity of germplasm for the year 1 GCP--Potato		  5 Commissioned $6,300 Potato/Various regions and traits
  Glaszmann, Jean Christophe  CIRAD--Agropolis G4005.04 Assessing DarTs as a genome-wide scanning technology  1 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Oct 2007  $162,360 Various crops, regions and traits
  Glaszmann, Jean Christophe CIRAD--Agropolis G4008.40

Glaszmann, Jean Christophe
Workshop on “Reference sets of food crop germplasm for international collaboration

 5 Commissioned Jan 2008−Dec 2008 $120,000 Various crops, traits and regions
  Gomez, Humberto GCP G4007.21

Genotyping Support
Service

 5 Commissioned Aug 2007–Feb 2009 $300,000 Various crops, regions and traits
  Gomide, Reinaldo  EMBRAPA G4005.06 Supporting emergence of reference drought tolerance phenotyping centers  1 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Jun 2008 $581,590 Cereals (maize, sorghum, rice, and wheat) and legumes
(common bean and cowpea)/Various regions/Drought tolerance
  Gruneberg, Wolfgang CIP G4007.07

Marker-assisted
selection for sweetpotato virus disease (SPVD)
resistance in sweetpotato germplasm and
breeding populations

 3 Commissioned Aug 2007–Jul 2009
 $379,800   
Sweetpotato/Africa/SPVD resistance
  Halewood, Michael Bioversity International G4007.20 Managing the
Generation Challenge Programme in a post-
International Treaty world: A proposal for
a technical training workshop and related
materials		  5 Commissioned Aug 2007–Jul 2008 $34,100 Various crops, regions and traits
  Hash, C Tom  ICRISAT G4005.01.03 Completing genotyping of composite germplasm set of sorghum  1 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Sep 2008 $129,000 Sorghum/Various regions and traits
  Hash, C Tom ICRISAT G4008.46 Sorghum MAGIC: Multiparent Advanced Generation Inter-Cross development for gene discovery and allele validation  1 Commissioned Aug 2008−Jul 2009 $92,286 Sorghum/Africa, Asia/Various traits
  Hash, C Tom ICRISAT G4008.07 Improving molecular tools for pearl millet  2 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $296,429 Pearl millet/Various traits/Africa, Asia, Latin America
  Hearne, Sarah  IITA G4005.14 Stress response-enriched EST resources for targeted species   2 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to May 2007 $99,560 Pearl millet, cowpea/Africa/Various traits
  Henson-Apollonio, Victoria CAS-IP, c/o Bioversity G4005.66 IP Matters: An Intellectual Property and Access & Benefit Sharing-helpdesk and On-line-Resource for the GCP Community, Partners and Stakeholders
2006		  5 Commissioned Jan 2006--Dec $152,440 Various crops, regions and traits
  Henson-Apollonio, Victoria CAS-IP, c/o Bioversity G4005.67 (CB17): Reporting for
product distribution: An asset inventory
system for the Generation Challenge
Programme		  5 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2006
 $41,200 Various crops, regions and traits
  Heuer, Sigrid
 IRRI G4008.41

Application and Validation of the Major QTL Phosphate Uptake 1 (Pup1)

3  Commissioned Jan 2008–Dec 2009 $166,550 Rice/Asia/Salt tolerance
  Heuer, Sigrid  IRRI G3008.04 Drought from a Different Perspective: Improved Tolerance in rice through Phosphorus Acquisition  2  Competitive Oct 2008–Sep 2011 $900,000 Rice/Various regions/Drought tolerance; P-deficiency
  Hoisington, David ICRISAT G4005.70.01 Tapping
crop biodiversity for the resource- poor in
East and Central Africa		  5 Commissioned July 2005–June 2008 with no-cost extension to Jun
2009		 $138,000
 Cassava/Africa/Various traits
  Hyman, Glenn  CIAT G4008.34

Environmental assessment for phenotyping network

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $279,403 Various crops, regions and traits
  Hyman, Glenn  CIAT G4006.13

Targeting and impact
analysis of Generation Challenge Programme
(GCP) technologies

 5 Commissioned Nov 2006−Dec 2007 with NCE to Dec 2008
 $149,742 Various crops, regions and traits
  Ismail, Abdelbagi IRRI
   Revitalising marginal
lands: Discovery of genes for tolerance of
saline and phosphorus deficient soils to
enhance and sustain productivity		  2 Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Jun 2008
 $900,000
 Rice/Asia/Salinity and phosphorus deficiency 
  Ismail, Abdelbagi IRRI  G4008.16

Speeding the Development of Salt-tolerant Rice Varieties through Marker-assisted Selection and their Dissemination in Salt-affected Areas of Bangladesh

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $223,768 Rice/Salt tolerance/Asia
  Jing, Ruilian  CAAS G4007.06

Integrating markerassisted
selection into the conventional
breeding procedure for improvement of wheat
(Triticum aestivum L.) in the drought-prone
areas of Northern China

 3 Commissioned Aug 2007–Jul 2009
 $150,590
 		 Wheat/Asia/Drought tolerance
  Jongdee,  Boonrat
BRRD, Thailand
 G3008.09 Breeding for Drought Tolerance in Rainfed Lowland Rice for the Mekong Region  4 Competitive Oct 2008– Sep 2011 $847,600 Rice/Drought tolerance/Asia
  Kashiwagi, Junichi  ICRISAT G4008.12

Linking genetic diversity with phenotype for drought tolerance traits through molecular and physiological characterization of a diverse reference collection of chickpea

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008─Dec 2009 $156,215 Chickpea/Various regions/Drought tolerance
 

Kikuchi, Shoshi

NIAS  G4008.08 Transcriptome analysis of near-isogenic rice lines to identify expression signatures and gene combinations conferring tolerance to drought stress  2 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $305,400
 		 Rice/Drought tolerance/Various regions
  Knapp, Steven
The University of Georgia  G4008.06

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Discovery, Validation, and Mapping in Groundnut

 2 Commissioned Jan 2008–Dec 2008 $152,543 Groundnut/Various traits and regions
  Kochian, Leon USDA/ARS and Cornell University G3005.16

Isolation and
characterisation of aluminum tolerance
genes in the cereals: An integrated functional
genomic, molecular genetic and physiological
analysis

 2 Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Dec 2008 $900,000 Sorghum, maize, rice, Triticea/Africa, Asia/Aluminium
tolerance
  Kochian, Leon USDA/ARS G3008.02

Improving grain yield on acid soils by the identification of genetic factors underlying drought and aluminum tolerance in maize and sorghum

 2 Competitive Oct 2008–Sep 2011 $857,366 Maize and sorghum/Sub-Saharan Africa/Acidity
  Koebner, Robert
CropGen International G4008.31

Upgrading the quality and utility of GCP phenotyping data through the development of a data input template to facilitate the storage of data in cross-specific databases

 4 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $72,000 Various crops, regions and traits
  KolesNikova-Allen, Maria  IITA G4005.55.02
 Development
of reference molecular marker kits to analyse
diversity of germplasm for the year 1 GCP
crops--Musa		  5 Commissioned Jan 2005-Dec 2005 with NCE to 2006 $6,300 Musa/Various regions and traits
  Kumar, Arvind  G3007.05  IRRI

Detecting and finemapping
QTLs with major effects on rice
yield under drought stress for deployment via
marker-aided breeding

 3  Competitive Aug 2007–Jul 2009
 $598,590 Rice/Asia/Drought tolerance
  Kumar, Arvind  G4005.69.01  IRRI Developing and
disseminating resilient and productive rice
varieties for drought-prone environments in
India		  5 Commissioned February 2008; no-cost extension to
February 2009		 $120,000 Rice/Asia/Drought tolerance
  Laing, Mark G4008.19 UKZN

Incorporation of an MSV resistance gene in Mozambican maize varieties, mediated by use of MAS

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2010 $240,000 Maize/SVD/Africa
  Laing, Mark G4006.36 UKZN Capacity-building and research project  5 Commissioned Jan 2007–Dec 2011 ZAR (South African Rands) 3,502,181 /
USD $500,312
 Various crops/Africa/Various traits
  Leung, Hei IRRI G4008.01 Population development to underpin gene discovery and allele validation in rice: the multiparent Advanced Generation Inter-Crosses (MAGIC)  1 Commissioned Jan 2008–Dec 2009 $113,994 Various crops, regions and traits
  Li, Zhikang CAAS G3005.12

Drought tolerant
rice cultivars for North China and South/
Southeast Asia by highly efficient pyramiding
of QTLs from diverse origins

 3 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2007 $889,500 Rice/Asia/Drought tolerance
  Li, Zhikang
CAAS G4005.69.02

Pathway dissection and
candidate gene identification of drought
tolerance in rice by a forward genetics
approach

 5 Focus March 2005−February 2008
 $120,000 Rice/Asia/Drought tolerance
  Lorieux, Mathias Agropolis−IRD/CIAT  G3005.10  Exploring natural
genetic variation: Developing genomic
resources and introgression lines for four AA
genome rice relatives		  1 Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2008 with NCE to Sep 2009 $1,074,800 Rice/Various regions/Drought tolerance
  Lorieux, Mathias Agropolis−IRD/CIAT  G4008.45  A nested association mapping (NAM): Laying the bases for highly efficient QTL characterisation population of rice  1 Commissioned Aug 2008–Jul 2010 $226,010 Rice/Drought tolerance/Various regions
  Louwaars, Niels WUR G4005.65 Distant policies: A distance learning module for scientists on Genetic Resource Policies and their implications for Freedom-to-Operate  5 Commissioned Jan 2005-Dec 2006 with NCE to May 2007 $147,290 Various crops, regions and traits
  Luquet, Delphine Agropolis−CIRAD  G4005.07 Whole plant physiology modeling of drought tolerance in cereals  1  Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2006 with NCE to May 2008 $575,720 Cereals (various)/Various regions/Drought tolerance
  Lynch, JP Pennsylvania State University, USA
 G3008.07 Basal Root Architecture and Drought Tolerance in Common Bean  3 Competitive Oct 2008-Sep 2011 $900,000
 Bean Beans/Drought tolerance/Africa
  Magalhaes, Jurandir Viera EMBRAPA G3007.04

Tailoring superior alleles
for abiotic stress genes for deployment into
breeding programmes: A case study based on
association analysis of Altsb, a major aluminum
tolerance gene in sorghum

 3 Commissioned Aug 2007–Jul 2009 $603,101 Sorghum/Africa/Aluminum tolerance
  May, Gregory National Centre for Genome Resources (NCGR), USA  G4008.47

Developing genomic resources for pigeonpea using next generation sequencing technologies

 2  Commissioned Aug 2008–Jul 2010 $292,200 Pigeonpea/Drought and disease resistance/Various regions
  Metz, Thomas IRRI  G4005.34 GenerationCP software
engineering and collaboration platform		  4 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2007 $159,060 Various crops, regions and traits
  Metz, Thomas IRRI  G4006.17 GenerationCP data
quality improvement and assurance 		  4  Commissioned Jan 2006–Dec 2008 $474,289 Various crops, regions and traits
  McLaren, Graham GCP/IRRI G4006.16 Development of an
Integrated GCP Information Platform		  4  Commissioned Jan 2006–Dec 2008
 $463,050 Various crops, regions and traits
  McNally, Ken IRRI  G4005.01.07 Genotyping of composite germplasm set--Rice  1 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Oct 2007 Information not available (GCP 'Cluster' project)  Rice/Various crops, regions and traits
  McNally, Ken IRRI  G4005.05 Assesing Ecotilling as a
methodology for targetted genotyping and
SNP discovery		  1  Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Sep 2008  $300,000 Rice, sorghum/Various regions and traits
  McNally, Ken IRRI  G4006.03 SNP analysis of the
genetic diversity along the rice genome
(HAPLORYZA)		  1  Commissioned Jan 2006–Dec 2006 with NCE to Dec 2007  $150,000 Rice/Asia/Various traits
   McNally, Ken IRRI  G4005.35 : Sequencing multiple
and diverse rice varieties: Connecting wholegenome
variation with phenotype		  2 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Dec 2007
 $236,000 Rice/Various regions and traits
  McNally, Kenneth IRRI G4005.55.01

Development
of reference molecular marker kits to analyse
diversity of germplasm for the year 1 GCP
crops--Rice

 5 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2005 with NCE to Dec 2006 $6,300 Rice/Various traits and regions
  Misra SC Agharkar Research Institute, India G3008.01

Generating new wheat germplasm with enhanced drought/heat tolerance using AB genomes genetic diversity

 1 Competitive Oct 2008–Sep 2011  $779,820 Wheat/Various regions/Drought tolerance
  Molnar, Marta ARI–HAS G4007.23

Field evaluation of
wheat-barley introgression lines under
different water regimes

 3 Special Dec 2007–Nov 2010
 $144,000
 Wheat/Asia/Drought, salt and Al-tolerance
  Monneveux, Philippe  GCP G4007.25

Development of a GCP
Drought Phenotyping Network

 3  Commissioned Dec 2007–Feb 2008
 $22,500
 Various crops/Africa, Asia, Latin America/Drought tolerance
  Morel,  Jean-Benoit Agropolis--CIRAD  G3005.11
Functional genomics of
cross-species resistance to fungal diseases in
rice and wheat (Cereal Immunity)		  2 Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Oct 2008 $900,000 Rice, wheat/Asia, Latin America/Disease resistance
  Muranaka, Satoru
 IITA G3005.06

Marker development
and marker-assisted selection for Striga
resistance in cowpea

3  Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Oct 2008
 $900,000 Cowpea/Africa/Striga resistance
  Naurollah, Ahmadi Agropolis--CIRAD G4005.17

Integrative genetic
framework for comparative QTL mapping
for drought tolerance in beans (CIAT and
Agropolis−CIRAD)

 2 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2006 with NCE to Dec 2007 $200,000 Beans/Africa, Latin America/Drought tolerance
  Nelson, Rebecca Cornell University G3005.08

Targeted discovery of
superior disease QTL alleles in maize and rice
genomes

 2 Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Dec 2008 $899,611 Maize, rice/Africa, Asia/Disease resistance
  Ndjiondjop,  Marie-Noelle
 WARDA G4007.08

Integration of genomic
tools with conventional screening for
developing NERICA rice cultivars for West
Africa

 3 Commissioned Aug 2007−Jul 2009 $304,440 Rice/Africa/Drought tolerance and disease resistance
  Ndoye, Ousmane
  ISRA G4008.49

Enhancing groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) genetic diversity and speeding its utilisation in breeding for improving drought tolerance

 3  Commissioned Aug 2008–Jul 2009 $81,600 Groundnut/Drought tolerance/Africa, Latin America
  Ndoye, Ousmane  ISRA G4007.13.03 Capacity-building
à la carte 2007 - Application of molecular tools
for controlled wild introgression into peanut cultivated germplasm in Senegal		  5 Commissioned Jul 2007–Jul 2009
 $133,809 Peanut/Africa/Drought and disease resistance
  Niederhauser, Norbert
 CIAT G4007.22 GCP Workflow and Repository System  5 Commissioned Aug 2007–Dec 2008 $91,980 Various crops, regions and traits
  Norton, George W Virginia Tech G4006.14 Ex-ante impact analysis
of marker-assisted selection technologies
supported by the Generation Challenge
Programme (GCP)		  5 Commissioned Dec 2006–Dec 2008 $148,618 Various crops, regions and traits
  Francis Ogbonnaya ICARDA G3008.08 Breeder-friendly high-throughput phenotyping tools to select for wheat adaptive traits in drought-prone environments   3  Competitive Oct 2008–Sep 2011
 $897,073 Wheat/Africa and Asia/Drought tolerance
  Okogbenin, Emmanuel  CIAT G3005.09 Development of lowcost
technologies for pyramiding useful
genes from wild relatives of cassava into elite
progenitors		 3  Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Dec 2008 $894,906 Cassava/Africa, Latin America/Disease resistance 
  Okogbenin, Emmanuel
CIAT G4008.26

A cassava breeding Community of Practice in Africa for accelerated production and dissemination of farmer-preferred cassava varieties resistant to pests and diseases

 5 Commissioned Jan 2008–Dec 2010 $651,525 Cassava/Africa/ Disease and pest resistance
  Oppong, Allen

 

CRI–CSIR

G4007.13.04

Capacity-building à la carte 2007: Characterisation of maize germplasm
found in Ghana, using the bulking technique

 5 Commissioned Jul 2007–Jul 2009
 $72,500 Maize/Africa/Drought tolerance, streak virus disease
  Papp, Peter Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary G4008.28

Characterisation of maize diversity in Central Europe

 5 Focus Jan 2008-Dec 2008 $9,000 Maize/Various traits and regions
  Papp, Peter Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary G4008.29

Characterization of bean diversity in Central Europe

 5 Focus Jan 2008-Dec 2008 $9,000 Beans/Various traits and regions
  Paterson, Andrew H.
University of Georgia, USA
 G3008.05

Discovery and develoment of alleles contributing to sorghum drought tolerance 

 2  Competitive

Oct 2008–Sep 2011

$756,225 Sorghum/Drought tolerance/Africa and Asia
  Payne, Thomas
CIMMYT G4005.10 Wheat genetic stock
assembly and utilisation		  2 Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2006 $120,000 Wheat/Various regions and traits
  Perreira, Andy VBI, Virginia Tech  G4007.02

Validation of droughtresponse/
resistance pathway genes by
phenotypic analysis of mutants

 2 Commissioned Aug 2007–Jul 2009 $200,543 Rice/Asia/Drought tolerance
  Phumichai, Chalermpol  BIOTEC G4007.04

Association mapping of
downy mildew resistance in elite maize inbred
lines in Thailand

3 Commissioned Aug 2007–Jul 2009
 $60,464
 Maize/Asia/Mildew resistance
  Pratt, Laurence
CIMS (Centro de Inteligencia sobre Mercados Sostenibles) G4008.50

Delivery Plan Remote Learning Modules

 5 Commissioned Aug 2008─Jul 2009  $246,620 Various crops, regions and traits
  Rami, Jean-Francois  Agropolis--CIRAD  G4007.01 SP1 composite sets
genotyping data: quality assessment and
consolidation		  1 Commissioned Jan 2007–Dec 2008 $50,000 Various crops, regions and traits
  Rami, Jean-Francois  Agropolis--CIRAD  G4008.48

Improve sorghum productivity in semi-arid environments of Mali through integrated MARS

 3 ommissioned Aug 2008–Jul 2013 $678,600 Sorghum/Drought tolerance/Africa
  Rabinowicz, Pablo University of Maryland, USA  G3007.03

Development of
genomics resources for molecular breeding of
drought tolerance in cassava

 2 Competitive Sep 2007–Feb 2010 $758,058
  

Cassava/Africa, Asia, Latin America/Drought tolerance

  Reynolds, Matthew CIMMYT  G3007.06


Genetic dissection of
drought adaptive mechanisms in bread and
durum wheat through large scale phenotyping
methodologies

 2 Competitive Aug 2007–Jul 2009
 $602,000 Wheat/Australia, Asia, Latin America/Drought tolerance
  Rouard, Mathieu Bioversity International G4005.24 Application and
development of web services technology		  4 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2007 (continued through to Oct
2008 under project G4008.21)
 $260,300 Various crops, regions and traits
  Rouard, Mathieu Bioversity International G4008.21

Large-scale phylogenomic analyses to gene function prediction for GCP crops

 4 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $121,534 Various crops, regions and traits
  Sackville- Hamilton, N Ruaraidh IRRI  G4006.01 Developing strategies
for allele mining within large collections		 1  Commissioned Jan 2006–Jul 2008  $200,000 Various crops, regions and traits
  Salam, MA BRRI G4008.39.01 Capacity-building à la carte 2008— Enhancing MAS Capacity for Salt-stress Rice Breeding in Bangladesh  5 Commissioned

April 2008–April 2010

$39,926

 

Rice/Asia/Salinity stress
  Ghasem Salekdeh, Hosseini 
 		 ABRII G4007.13.05 Capacity-building
à la carte 2007 - An integrated proteomics and
genomics approach to discover salt tolerance
genes		 5 Commissioned Jul 2007–Jul 2009
 $48,970

Rice/Asia/Salinity resistance

  Sasaki, Takuji
 NIAS  G4005.15 Targeted Musa genome
sequencing and frame map construction		  2  Commissioned Jan 2005−Dec 2006 with NCE to Dec 2007
 $419,846 Musa/Asia, Latin America/Various traits
  Schaffer, Robert
EMBRAPA G4008.10

Assessment of the breeding value of superior haplotypes for AltSB, a major Al tolerance gene in sorghum: linking upstream genomics to acid soil breeding in Niger and Mali (ALTFIELD)

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008–Dec 2010 $205,200 Sorghum/Africa/Al-tolerance
  Schafleitner, Roland CIP G4008.09


G4008.09: Development of genetic and genomic resources for breeding improved sweetpotato varieties

 2 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $299,540 Sweetpotato/Drought and disease resistance/Sub-Saharan Africa 
  Skofic, Milko
 Bioversity International G4005.23 Implementation of web services technology in the Generation
Challenge Programme Consortium		  4 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2008
 $505,910 Various crops, regions and traits
  Senger, Martin IRRI  G4007.12  Development of tools
and technology to increase the functionality
of the GCP Information PlatforM		  4 Commissioned Feb 2007–Dec 2008
 $186,441 Various crops, regions and traits
  Serraj, Rachid IRRI G3005.01

Identifying genes
responsible for failure of grain formation in
rice and wheat under drought

 2  Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 $900,000 Rice, wheat/Asia/Drought tolerance
  Serraj, Rachid
 IRRI G4005.19 Evaluation and
deployment of transgenic drought-tolerant
varieties		  3  Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2006 with NCE to Oct 2007
 $301,770
 Various crops and regions/Drought tolerance
  Serraj, Rachid
IRRI G3008.06 Targeting Drought-Avoidance Root Traits to Enhance Rice Productivity under Water-Limited Environments  3 Competitive Oct 2008–Sep 2011 $900,000 Rice/Asia/Drought tolerance
   Shah, Trushaar  ICRISAT  G4007.11 Refinement and
distribution of iMAS for use by NARS and
other user communities
  4  Commissioned Jan 2007–Dec 2008  $164,000 Various crops, regions and traits
  Simon-Kiss,  Ibolya Research Institute for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Irrigation, Hungary  G4008.51 Use of molecular marker and physiological tests to characterise Hungarian rice diversity and new sources of blast resistance 1  Commissioned April 2008–October 2008 $13,500 Rice/Blast resistance/Various regions
  Tardieu, Francois Agropolis−INRA G3005.15

Determination of a common genetic basis for tissue growth rate
under water-limited conditions across plant
organs and genomes

 2 Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Dec 2008 $898,686 Various crops/Africa, Asia/Drought tolerance
  Tardieu, Francois Agropolis−INRA  G4006.09 Training course on phenotyping  5 Commissioned Jan 2006–Dec 2006 $112,500 Various crops, regions and traits
  This, Dominique Agro-Montpellier, Agropolis-France  G4006.02 A dataset on allele
diversity at orthologous candidate genes in GCP crops (ADOC)		  1  Commissioned Jan 2006–Dec 2008  $860,000 Various crops and regions/Drought tolerance
  Tignegre, Jean-Baptiste de la Salle INERA G4008.17

Application of marker-assisted selection for Striga resistance in cowpea

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $199,986 Cowpea/Africa/Striga resistance
  Toojinda, Theerayut BIOTEC G4007.03
 The “Community
of Practices” concept applied to rice
production in the Mekong region: Quick
conversion of popular rice varieties with
emphasis on drought, salinity and grain
quality improvement		  5 Commissioned Jan 2007–Dec 2008 $120,000 Rice/Asia/Drought and salinity tolerance, grain quality
  Upadhyaya, HD ICRISAT G4006.06  Genotyping composite
collection of finger millet [Eleusine corcana (L.)
Gaertn]		  1 Commissioned Jan 2006–Dec 2006 with NCE to Oct 2007 $20,000 Finger millet/Africa, Asia/Various traits
  Upadhyaya, HD  ICRISAT  G4006.30  Development and
genotyping of composite collection of foxtail
millet [Setaria italica (L.) Breauv].		  1 Commissioned Jan 2006−Dec 2006 with NCE to Jul 2008 $25,016 Foxtail millet/Asia, Europe, North America/Various traits
  Upadhyaya, HD  ICRISAT  G4006.31 Development and
genotyping of composite collection of pearl
millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.)		  1 Commissioned Jan 2006−Dec 2006 with NCE to Jul 2008 $60,042 Pearl millet/Africa, Asia, Latin America/Various traits
  Upadhyaya, HD  ICRISAT  G4006.32 Molecular
characterisation of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan
L.) composite collection		  1 Commissioned Jan 2006−Dec 2006 with NCE to Oct 2007 $30,000 Pigeonpea/Africa, Asia, Latin America/Various traits
  Vadez, Vincent  ICRISAT G4008.27

Phenotyping course for drought
related traits across tropical legumes–Concepts and practices

 5 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2008 $118,776  

Various crops/Drought resistance/Africa

  van Damme, Veerle Consultant G4008.35

Toolbox of available molecular
markers useful for marker assisted selection in GCP crops

5  Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $41,000 Various crops, traits and regions
  van Eeuwijk, Fred WUR G3005.04 An eco-physiological–
statistical framework for the analysis of GxE
and QTLxE as occurring in abiotic stress trials,
with applications to the CIMMYT drought
stress programmes in tropical maize and
bread wheat		  4 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Jul 2008
 $507,150 Maize, wheat/Various regions/Drought tolerance
  van Eeuwijk, Fred WUR G4007.09 Methodology and
software development for marker-trait
association analyses		  4 Commissioned Aug 2007–Dec 2008 $300,000 Various crops, regions and traits
  van Eeuwijk, Fred WUR G4008.23

Statistical rules for defining
characteristic genotype and marker sets

 5 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2008 $30,000 Various crops, regions and traits
   van Hintum, Fred  WUR G4007.10 Support to GCP
scientists regarding issues related to
bioinformatics and data handling		  4  Commissioned Aug 2007–Jul 2009 $117,240 Various crops, regions and traits
   Vera Cruz, Casiana IRRI G4005.18 Development of lowcost
gene-based trait assay technologies in
cereals		  3 Commissioned Jan 2005–Dec 2006 with NCE to Oct 2007 $300,000 Maize, rice/Africa, Asia/Disease resistance
  Vilaro, Francisco INIA−Uruguay  G4008.15

Developing potato cultivars adapted to Southern Africa countries

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $209,868 Potato/Various traits/Africa
  Viswanathan, Mahalakshmi Bioversity G4006.04  Phenotyping in the
field: global capacity accessible to the GCP
– Inventory of phenotyping resources and
capacity for the CGP		  1 Commissioned Jan 2006–Dec 2007 $100,000 Various crops and regions/Drought tolerance
  Vivek, Bindiganavile S CIMMYT  G4008.56 Asian maize drought tolerance (AMDROUT project)  3  Commissioned November 2008–October 2013 $1,500,000 Maize/Asia/Drought tolerance
  Wang, JianKang
CIMMYT/CAAS G4008.14

Breeding for drought tolerance with known gene information

 3 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $300,000 Various crops/Droight tolerance/Various regions
  Waugh, Robbie  SCRI  G3007.02 Genomic dissection of
tolerance to drought stress in wild barley		  1 Competitive Aug 2007–Jul 2009 $567,604 Barley/Various regions/Drought tolerance
  Wood, Stanley IFPRI G4008.24

From Attractiveness to Feasibility:
A Strategic Assessment of the Capacity to Develop and Adopt
GCP Technologies

 5 Commissioned Jan 2008-Dec 2009 $261,112 Various crops, regions and traits
  Xu, Yunbi CIMMYT G4005.69.03

Innovative and integrated
approaches to improve the tolerance of
maize to water−limited environments

 5 Special April 2005−March 2007; no-cost extension to
June 2008		 $80,000 Maize/Africa, Asia/Drought tolerance
  Yan, Jianbing CIMMYT G3005.13 Development of
informative DNA markers through association
mapping in maize to improve drought
tolerance in cereals		  1 Competitive Jan 2005–Dec 2007 with NCE to Dec 2008  $899,052 Maize/Various regions/Drought tolerance, low soil fertility