During a period of approximately six-weeks, 115 respondents from the GCP community participated in a dual online survey that was administered by Meridian Institute. The survey followed the 2007 GCP Annual Research Meeting and was in two distinct parts: 1) feedback about the 2007 ARM (8 questions, targeting ARM participants); 2) general feedback about GCP (12 questions for ARM participants and key informants who had however not attended the ARM).
For a high-level overview and selected highlights from the survey, please click here.
From 28-30 January 2008, a Drought Phenotyping Network workshop was held at GCP Headquarters, CIMMYT, Mexico. The event brought together specialists from a range of disciplines, and participants examined several options for tackling the complexity of drought phenotyping in GCP projects.
After discussions, participants jointly identified common activities and developed a workplan to be further refined and implemented over the months to follow.
For more information, including expected outputs from the actions proposed at the workshop, please click here.
Two volumes of Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement (GACI), edited by GCP's Subprogramme 2 Leader Rajeev Varshney and GCP project collaborator Roberto Tuberosa (University of Bologna) have recently been published by Springer. Volume I, entitled “Genomics Approaches and Platforms”, presents state-of-the-art genomic resources and platforms and also describes the strategies and approaches for effectively exploiting genomics research for crop improvement. Volume II, entitled “Genomics Applications in Crops”, presents a number of case studies of important crop and plant species that summarise both the achievements and limitations of genomics research for crop improvement.
More than 90 authors, including several GCP collaborators and together representing 16 countries from five continents, have contributed 16 chapters for Volume I and 18 chapters for Volume II. Each article shows how structural and/or functional genomics can improve our capacity to unveil and deploy natural and artificial allelic variation for the benefit of plant breeders. Editors Varshney and Tuberosa hope that these two volumes, while providing new ideas and opportunities to those working in crop breeding, will help graduate students and teachers to develop a better understanding of the applications of crop genomics to plant research and breeding.
To learn of further publications produced by scientists involved in GCP projects, please visit our Research Publications page
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