Winners of the 2nd Genotyping Support Service (GSS) call for proposals confirmed

March 2009

Below are the winners of the 2nd GSS call for proposals.

This second call for proposals was announced in June 2008 in coordination and collaboration with calls from the Global Crop Diversity Trust (the Trust), which focused on phenotyping, and the Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB), whose focus was on capacity-building.

Special congratulations Eureka Teresa M. Ocampo, who was successful in all three Calls (ie. selected by the GSS, the Trust and GIPB). More details:

Name  Institution  Country Crop
Eureka Teresa M. Ocampo Institute of Plant Breeding, Crop Science Cluster, College of Agriculture, University of The Philippines The Philippines Musa

The following four winners, listed alphabetically, were successful in two of the three Calls (ie. selected by the GSS, and the Trust OR GIPB, as indicated in the final column):

Name  Institution  Country Crop Selected by the GSS and:
Boris Sagredo Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) Chile 
Potato		 GIPB
Dindo Tabanao  Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) The Philippines Rice GIPB
Jorge Antonio Rojas Beltrán PROINPA Foundation  Bolivia Potato the Trust
Tzvetelina Stoilova Institute of Plant Genetic Resources  Bulgaria  Phaseolus the Trust

The following 21 winners, listed alphabetically, were successful in the GCP's GSS Call: 

Name   Institution  Country  Crop 
Asrat Asfaw Amele Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) Ethiopia Phaseolus
Charles Lung'aho  Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) Kenya  Potato
Edson Amorim  Embrapa Cassava and Tropical Fruits  Brazil  Musa
Efren Santos Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador (CIBE), Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) Ecuador Musa
Emmanuel Okogbenin National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Nigeria  Cassava
Erika Salazar Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) Chile Maize
Francisco  Vilaró Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) Uruguay Potato
James Karanja Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) 
 Kenya  Maize
Jayanta Tarafdar  Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (State Agricultural University) 
 India Sweet potato
Jorge Antonio Rojas-Beltrán PROINPA foundation  Bolivia Maize
Jorge Jimenez Davalos La Molina National Agrarian University Peru Barley
Kanokporn Triwitayakorn Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Mahidol University  Thailand Cassava
Kassahun Bantte  Bisetegn Jimma University--College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Ethiopia  Sorghum
Lalith Perera Coconut Research Institute  Sri Lanka Coconut
Marian Quain

Crop Research Institute at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI–CSIR)

Ghana Sweet potato and Yam
Mario Paredes  Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Quilamapu  Chile Phaseolus
Raveendra Gadag  Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) India  Maize
Rogerio Chiulele Faculdade de Agronomia e Engenharia Florestal, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Mozambique Mozambique Cowpea
Ruth Thompson 

Crop Research Institute at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI–CSIR)

Ghana Cassava
Sivakumar Subbarayan Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) India  Maize
Wickneswari Ratnam  Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Malaysia Rice

In addition to the above, GCP is also considering another five proposals on cowpea, subject to procuring the appropriate molecular tools for the proposals. The four are:

Name   Institution  Country  Crop 
Jorge Berny Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP) Mexico Cowpea
Kenneth Fafa Egbadzor Plant Genetic Resources Research Ghana Cowpea
Mysore Uma University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore India Cowpea
Ruth Thompson 

Crop Research Institute at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI–CSIR)

Ghana Cowpea
Tzvetelina Stoilova Institute of Plant Genetic Resources Bulgaria  Cowpea