Grain Legumes Highlights,

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1 Review Meeting Grain Legumes Grain Legumes Highlights, Shoba Sivasankar Director CRP Grain Legumes 4 Oct Leveraging legumes to combat poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation

2 PROGRAM BACKGROUND 10 October

3 WHY LEGUMES? 10 October

4 CRP Timeline & 10-Year Target 10-Yr Original Proposal Launch CRP Dir IDOs Gender Strategy Ph I End Ext Start Ph II Prepn Start Ph II Proposal Submit In 10 years, increased production, sales and consumption of grain legumes will reduce, poverty, hunger and malnutrition of smallholder farmers, and improve sustainability of farming systems 10 October

5 Crop Species Faba bean Lentil Chickpea Common bean Cowpea Soybean Pigeonpea Groundnut After: Lavin et al. (2005) Syst Biol 54:575 Choi et al. (2004) PNAS 101:15289 Stefanović et al. (2009) Syst Biol 34: October

6 Focus Countries 10 October

7 Phase I Program Structure 10 October

8 Product Lines PL1 Drought and low-phosphorus tolerant common bean, cowpea and soybean PL2 Heat-tolerant chickpea, common bean, faba bean and lentil PL3 Short-duration, drought tolerant and aflatoxin-free groundnut PL4 High nitrogen-fixing chickpea, common bean, faba bean and soybean PL5 Insect-smart chickpea, cowpea and pigeonpea production systems PL6 Extra-early chickpea and lentil varieties PL7 Herbicide-tolerant, machine-harvestable chickpea, faba bean and lentil varieties PL8 Pigeonpea hybrids and management practices 10 October

9 Phase II Structure FP 1: MANAGING PRODUCTIVITY FP 4.2: POST-HARVEST PROCESSING FP 2: TRAIT DETERMINATION FP 5: CAPACITY BUILDING & PARTNERSHIPS FP 3: TRAIT DEPLOYMENT FP 6: KNOWLEDGE, IMPACTS, PRIORITIES & GENDER ORGANISATION FP 4.1: SEED SYSTEMS FP 7: TOOLS & PLATFORMS FOR GENOTYPING & BIOINFORMATICS 10 October

10 4-Year Achievements 10 October

11 Lessons Learned Definition of product concept in CRP GL extremely beneficial to focus R4D Several scientific concepts remain yet to be addressed for product targets Strength of partnerships from pre-reform period + new partnerships Co-ordination across Centers an evolving process Tracking difficulty due to the structural complexity due to crops across multiple Centers MEL platform will help relieve this Need to link CRP R4D more solidly with other disperse, but important efforts Phenotyping: Breadth of the concept, throughput Capacity development needs vs budget 10 October

12 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 10 October

13 PL1. Drought and low-phosphorus tolerant common bean, cowpea and soybean Facilitating legume seed and technology delivery systems Policy change in ES Africa: Acceptance of Quality Declared Seed QDS produced by trained farmers Local production reduces transport costs Seed produced (MT): 96,000 of bean, 16,549 of cowpeas and soybean Option of availing locally preferred varieties Promotion of local entrepreneurship 10 October

14 PL2. Heat-tolerant chickpea, common bean, faba bean and lentil Development of heat-tolerant elite bean lines Wide crosses between common and tepary beans produced bean lines with strong tolerance to 4 o C higher temperatures than normally tolerated by the crop 10 October

15 PL3. Short-duration, drought-tolerant and aflatoxin-free groundnut Transgenic drought tolerance with DREB1A 18-26% increased yield in confined field testing under water stress 10 October

16 PL5. Insect-smart chickpea, cowpea and pigeonpea production systems 8 pigeonpea events overexpressing Cry1Ac identified Hybrid parents of pigeonpea (B-lines) and chickpea with Bt stacks in development Biopesticide (mixture of emulsifiable neem oil and MaviMNPV) effective against cowpea podborer in preliminary lab and field tests Discovery of Cyclo (Trp-Phe) that kills/controls Helicoverpa armigera 10 October

17 PL6. Extra-early chickpea and lentil varieties Extra-early chickpea in Myanmar Lentil in rice system in Bangladesh 10 October

18 PL7. Herbicide-tolerant, machine-harvestable chickpea, faba bean and lentil varieties 10 October

19 PL8. Pigeonpea hybrid and management practices Hybrids released: ICPH 2671, ICPH 3762, ICPH 2740, ICPH 4503, BIO October

20 LeasyScan Phenotyping Platform 10 October

21 Book: Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Grain Legumes Joint effort involving all 4 participating Centers: 6 Editors (from ICRISAT, CIAT, ICARDA and IITA) 36 Chapters in two volumes o Volume 1 focused on Advances in Breeding and Cultivation o Volume 2 focused on specific legumes To be published in October

22 10-Year Pulse Research Strategy (mid-nov 2016) 1. Breeding and genetics for improved productivity and resilience. Dr Noel Ellis 2. Pulses in integrated crop systems and agricultural landscapes. Dr Robin Buruchara 3. Integration of pulses into food systems Dr Carol Henry 4. Integration across agricultural, nutritional and social sciences Dr. Diego Rubiales 5. Spatially-explicit analyses related to global challenges Dr JS Sandhu Organizing Author: Shoba Sivasankar Project Coordinator: Dr Christine Negra 10 October

23 MONITORING & EVALUATION PLATFORM 10 October

24 THANK YOU!!! Leveraging legumes to combat poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation