PGR partnership programmes

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PGR partnership programmes

Jean-Louis Pham IRD Montpellier UMR 1097
Diversity and Genomes of Cultivated Plants
www.dgpc.org
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• IRD CIRAD have been historical partners of PGR
  conservation and research in WCA
• Collecting activities of crops and wild relatives
  with IBPGR and NARS
• Characterization/evaluation of PGR collections
• Isozyme and DNA markers
• Research for in situ conservation on-farm

Ex situ conservation old challenge, new
questions
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IRD
CIRAD
International agreements European networks
INRA
Challenge programs CG centers NARS
AUF French-speaking community  Biotech network 
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Plant genetic resources at IRD Research areas

• Evolution of cultivated plants
• Species complex, Domestication, Differentiation
• Dynamics of diversity
• Agricultural practices
• Geneflows
• Agronomical traits
• Genetic basis
• Functional mechanisms
• Strategies for diversity management
• Conservation of diversity, ex situ and in situ
• Use in plant breeding

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Management and use of germplasm collections

• Difficult to maintain
• Centres of Biological Resources (OEDC)
• Core collections, bulk populations
• Restoring NARS collections
• Genetic erosion studies
• Collections point of reference on the timeline

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Studying changes in pearl millet and sorghum
diversity
1976
Germplasm collectionsof sorghum and pearlmillet
were assembled. 160 villages coveringthe
cultivation area ofthese crops were sampled
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1976
2003
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Adding value to PGR

• High-throughput evaluation for DNA markers
• Genomic resources towards agronomical genes
  and allele mining
• Creating new genetic resources ?

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How to develop interactions between in situ
on-farm , PPB and ex situ conservation ?

• Flows
• germplasm
• information

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Capacity building Developing Biotech labs

• To be considered in the whole African context
• CORAF plan for biotechs and biosecurity
• NEPAD
• etc

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The Laboratory of Genetics of the University of
Abomey-Calavi (Benin) was developped with the
support of IRD
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A Lab for Genetic Diversity Analysis in Niamey

• Based upon the IRD lab developed in the 90s
• Research Training in a multi-institutional
  setting
• Step 1
• Modernize the IRD Lab
• Train Niger scientists in lab technology and
  diversity analysis
• Work on institutional and funding parameters
• Define research projects
• Step 2
• Physical and institutional transfer to Niger
  scientific community
• Step 3
• Scientific support from IRD
• DNA markers
• Research projects

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In our lab in Montpellier
Training
In Benin
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Training

• Universities (w/ IRD and CIRAD)
• MSc Genetic Resources
• MSc Plant Biotechs
• MSc Biodiversity
• PhDs
• Specific courses (existing or to be created)
• Cryoconservation
• DNA markers (Generation CP)
• Data analysis

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Your entry point to the complex worldof French
agronomical research in Montpellier
IRD CIRAD CNEARC AGRO M ENGREF IAM
www.agropolis.fr
A Consortium member of the Generation Challenge
Program