Crop Genebank Knowledge Base

Crops

Banana

Arnaud, Elizabeth
Bolton, Michael
Channeliere,Stéphanie
Dolezel, Jaroslav
Dumet, Dominique
Gueye, Badara
Horry, Jean-Pierre
Jorge, Alexandra
Kodjo, Tomekpe
Panis, Bart
Roux, Nicolas
Ruas, Max
Van den Bergh, Inge
Van den Houwe, Ines
Vezina, Anne

Barley

Alô, Fida
Amri, Ahmed
Asaad, Siham
Humeid, Bilal
Konopka, Jan
Omran, Adnan
Rukhkyan, Natalya
Street, Kenneth
 

Cassava

Cuervo, Maritza
Benson, Erica
Debouck, Daniel
Dumet, Dominique
Escobar, Roosevelt
Gueye, Badara
Harding, Keith
Hershey, Clair
Jorge, Alexandra
Mafla, Graciela
Panis, Bart
Rios, Llerme
Roux, Nicolas
Van den Houwe, Ines

Chickpea

Amri, Ahmed
Börner, Andreas
Antalikova, Gabriela
Gowda, Cholenahalli L.L.
Redden, Bob
Rukhkyan, Natalya
Sastry, Dintyala
Sharma, Shivali
Sharma, Shyam
Singh, Sube
Stoyanova, Siyka
Street, Kenneth
Upadhyaya, Hari D.

 

Forage grasses

Cantrell, Juvy B.
Cuervo, Maritza
Debouck, Daniel
Hanson, Jean
Jorge, Alexandra
Proud, Janice
Schultze-Kraft, Rainer 

Forage legumes

Amri, Ahmed
Asaad, Siham
Cantrell, Juvy B.
Cuervo, Maritza
Debouck, Daniel
Hanson, Jean
Jorge, Alexandra
Proud, Janice
Rukhkyan, Natalya
Shehadeh, Ali
Snowball, Richard
Street, Kenneth
 

Maize

Costich, Denise
Dumet, Dominique
Furman, Bonnie J.
Millard, Mark
Taba, Suketoshi
Teixeira, Flavia

Radish

Allender, Charlotte
Bas, Noortje
Börner, Andreas
Campbell, George
Dulloo, Ehsan
Ebert, Andreas
Lohwasser, Ulrike
Pandey, Chitra
Robertson, Larry
Thormann, Imke
Xixiang, Li
Yang, Qiu

Rice

Alcantara, Adelaida
Almazan, Soccie 
Duveiller, Etienne
Gonzales, Patria
de Guzman, Flora
Hay, Fiona
McNally, Ken
Naredo, Elizabeth
Sánchez, Ines
Reaño, Renato
Sackville Hamilton, Ruaraidh

Wheat

Amri, Ahmed
Bockelmann, Harold
Knűpffer, Helmut
Payne, Thomas
Taba, Suketoshi
 

Procedures

General procedures

Dulloo, Ehsan
Hanson, Jean
Jorge, Alexandra

Safety duplication

Cantrell, Juvy B.
Espinosa, Catherine
Hanson, Jean
Horna, Daniela
Jorge, Alexandra
Panta, Ana
Tay, David

Collecting

Alercia, Adriana
Bettencourt, Eliseu
Castañeda Álvarez, Nora
Crossa, Jose
Dansi, Alexandre
Davis, Aaron P
de Vicente, Maria Carmen

Eastwood, Ruth J
Engelmann, Florent
Engels, Jan M M
Friis-Hansen, E
Frison, Emile
Garruccio, Maria
Galluzzi, Gea
Giampieri, Francesca
Goldberg, Elizabeth
Guarino, Luigi
Hammer, Karl
Hanson, Jean
Hay, Fiona R
Herrmann, Laetitia
Hermann, M
Jackson, G V H
Iriondo, José María
Kell, S P
Lesueur, Didier
Macfarlane, Robert
Mackay, Michael
Magos Brehm, J
Mathur, Prem N

Maxted, Nigel
Moore, Gerald
Morimoto, Yasu
Parra-Quijano, Mauricio
Pence, Valerie C
Probert, Robin J
Quek, P
Ramanatha Rao, V
Scheldeman, Xavier
Schmidt, Lars
Thomas, Evert
Thormann, Imke
Torres Lamas, Elena
van de Wouw, Mark
Van Zonneveld, Maarten
Vencovsky, Roland
Vincent, H A
Volk, Gayle M
Way, Michael
Williams, Karen A

Management strategies

Decision support tool

Ademola, Ogundapo
Almazan, Socorro
Aquino, Genevieve Mae
Chavez, Victor
Ciprian, Arsenio
Cuervo, Maritza
Debouck, Daniel
Dulloo, Ehsan
Dumet, Dominique
Escobar, Roosevelt
Espinoza, Bibiana
Futakuchi, Koichi
Gonzales, Patria
Gumafelix, Jonalyn
Guzman, Flora
Hanson, Jean
Hernandez, Angela Marcela
Horna, Daniela
Jorge, Alexandra
Komerell, Victor
Koo, Bonwoo
Kumar, Arvind
La Liberte, Brigitte
Loayza, Mauro
Mafla, Graciela
Manyong, Victor
Martinez, Josefina Realpe
Ocampo, Charina
Payne, Thomas
Reaño, Renato
Reddy, K.N.
Reddy, V.G.
Rivas, Marcial
Sackville Hamilton, Ruaraidh
Sanches, Ines
Santos, Luis Guillermo
Santos, Teresita
Sastry, Dintyala
Singh, S.
Smale, Melinda
Taba, Suketoshi
Telosa, Anthony
Telosa, Miriam
Thakur, R.P.
Toro, Orlando
Upadhyaya, Hari D.
Van der Houwe, Ines

Genetic identity

Alercia, Adriana
Arnaud, Elizabeth
Ayodele, Maria
Crouch, Jonathan
Dulloo, Ehsan
Duveiller, Etienne
de la Fuente, Juan
Gasman, Francisca
Ghislain, Marc
McNally, Kenneth
Mezzalama,  Monica
Mugo, Stephen
Payne, Thomas
Rey, Jessica
Sackville Hamilton, Ruaraidh
Sharma, Shivali
Singh, Murari
Street, Kenneth
Taba, Suketoshi
Tay, David
Torp, Jan
Upadhyaya, Hari D.
Wu, Huixia

Quality management

Galsworthy, David
Jorge, Alexandra
Rojas, Edwin

Performance indicators

Dumet, Dominique
Henson-Apollonio, Victoria
Laliberte, Brigitte
Nguyen, Hang
Payne, Thomas
Robinson, Jonathan
Sackville Hamilton, Ruaraidh
Toll, Jane
Watts, Jamie
Wood, Melissa

Policies

Altoveros, Nestor
Amri, Ahmed
Baidu-Forson, Jojo
Borromeo, Teresita
Clancy, Evelyn
Ferro, Pamela
Gagné, Gabrielle
Glave, Manuel 
Halewood, Michael
Hanson, Jean
Lapeña, Isabel
Lopez Noriega, Isabel
Louafi, Selim
Muthamia, Zachary
Mwila, Godfrey
Opati, Linda 
Ramirez, Marleni
Sackville Hamilton, Ruaraidh
Sadiki, Mohammed
Sajise, Percy
Sigueñas, Manuel
Sebastian, Leocadio
Siang, Lim
Tay, David 
Upadhyaya, Hari D
Wambugu, Peterson

Risk management

Dumet, Dominique
Ellis, Dave
Fitzsimon, John
Hanson, Jean
Jorge, Alexandra
Loayza, Mauro
Payne, Thomas
Reaño, Renato
Reed, Barbara
Romero, Gabriel
Sackville Hamilton, Ruaraidh
Upadhyaya, Hari D.

Safe transfer of germplasm

Asaad, Siham
Almodiel, Myra (rice)
Ayodele, Maria
Barker, Ian
Cantrell, Juvy B.
Chuquillanqui, Carols
Cuervo, Maritza
Debouck, Daniel
Dubin, Jesse (reviewer)
Dumlao, Joel (rice)
Duveiller, Etienne (coordinator and wheat contributions)
Fuentes, Segundo
Galsworthy, David
Girish, A.G.
Gonzales, Evangeline
Gonzales, Patria (rice)
Gutarra, Liliam
Hanson, Jean (forage grass and legume)
Huelma, Carlos (rice)
Kumar, Lava
Manrique, Ivan
Martinez, Josefina
Medina, César Augusto
Mezzalama, Monica (wheat and maize)
Moukahal, Abdulrahman
Muller, Giovanna
Norgaard, Jesper
Payne, Thomas (wheat)
Pérez, Willmer
Phipps, Eloise (editorial support)
Proud, Janice
Ramírez, José Luís
Rao, V.P.
Simon, Reinhard
Smith, Julian
del Socorro Balcazar, Maria
Tay, David
Thakur, R.P.
Tomlinson, Derek
Van den Houwe, Ines
Woodhall, James
Ynouye, Cecilia

Specialized collections

Arnaud, Elizabeth
Ellis, Dave
Gill, Bikram
Glaszmann, Jean Christophe
Henson Apollonio, Victoria
Janis Thiriet
Kawase, Makoto
Kurata, Nori
Lagoda, Pierre
May, Sean
Ogbonnaya, Francis
Re Manning, Francesca
Rouard, Mathieu
Roux, Nicolas
Sackville Hamilton, Ruaraidh
Sharma, Shivali
Sharma, Shyam
Tohme, Joe
Tuberosa, Roberto
 

Learning resources

Bolton, Michael
Claessens, Geert
Corthouts, Lieven
Descheemaeker, Katrien
Dulloo, Ehsan
Duncan, Ruth
Gacheru, Esther
Goldberg, Elizabeth
Hanson, Jean
Jorge, Alexandra
Schmidt, Emily
Zanon, Andrea

External reviewers

Borromeo, Teresita (rice)
Diederichsen, Axel (barley)
Gold, Kate (learning resources)
Goodman, Major (maize)
Kim, Taesan (rice)
Porcari, Enrica (learning resources)
Staiger, Simone (learning resources)
Valkoun, Jan (barley, wheat)
van de Wouw, Mark (forage grasses and legumes)
Yadav, Shyam (chickpea)

Website development

Coordination and design

Claessens, Geert
Dulloo, Ehsan
Goldberg, Elizabeth
Hanson, Jean
Jorge, Alexandra
Tazza, Patrizia
Thormann, Imke

IT support

Claessens, Geert
Vidal, Thomas
 

Editing and revision

Alemayehu, Selam
Alercia, Adriana
Baena, Margarita
Cherfas, Jeremy
Claessens, Geert
Dulloo, Ehsan
Gacheru, Esther
Jorge, Alexandra
Hanson, Jean
Libreros, Dimary
Rengifo, Victoria
Rudebjer, Per
Salcedo, Jesus Maria
Sheridan, Kathleen
Spellman, Olga
Tesfahun, Aynalem
Thormann, Imke

Spanish translation

Translation

Alma McNab

IT support

Claessens, Geert
Lopez Lopez, Ricardo
Puccini, Alfred
Savolainen, Jussi

Sources of information

CGN-The Netherlands, USDA-USA, IPK-Germany, EMBRAPA-Brasil, NBPGR-India, SARC-RIPP- Slovak Republic, IPGR-Bulgaria, DPI-Australia, CIAT, ICRAF, IFPRI, IITA, IRRI, ILRI, WARDA, CIMMYT, ICARDA, ICRISAT, CIP, UPLB-Philipines, GRCTPL-Australia and Bioversity International publications and websites

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the wide range of experts who have spent so much of their valuable time and contributed significantly in different ways to the improvement of the content, layout and navigation of this website.

Special thanks are extended to: Bioversity International staff, SGRP secretariat staff, Capacity Development and Education specialists of the CGIAR centres, GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST staff, SGRP exchange fellows and the participants of the International Training Course on Plant Genetic Resources and Genebank Management (Suwon, Republic of Korea, 7-18 September 2009).