First Workshop for IT Staff on Barcodes and GRIN-Global.

1. Alice Muchugi, Simon Kangethe & John Innocent
ICRAF Genebank Brief-
Promoting use and conservation of
important indigenous trees
Programmer/Developer Workshop in ADDIS
21-25th November 2016

2. Why Agroforestry tree conservation?
• Deforestation continues at an alarmingly high rates in many countries.
– global rate of deforestation between 2000-2010 was 13 million hectares.
– At the end of the last millennium, around 10% of the world’s 60,000 to
100,000 tree species were threatened with extinction.
– Largest proportion of the loss in primary forests are mainly in ICRAF working
regions led by South America, followed by Africa and Asia.
• Current IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (www.iucnredlist.org), which
indicates approximately 1,200 trees and shrubs as “critically endangered”,
1,700 as “endangered” and another 3,700 as “vulnerable‟ FRA (2010)
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010CD-ROM FAO Rome.
• Role of ICRAF tree genebank-Agroforestry germplasm resources:
– Support ICRAF research projects with relevant germplasm information issues.
– Avail ICRAF partners and visitors with relevant tree germplasm information
– Facilitate acquisition of tree GR for ICRAF projects
– Facilitate acquisition of tree GR for selection and breeding programs to add
value to the collections.

3. ICRAF Genebank
• Ex situ genebank-5394 accessions representing 192
tree species
• Over 10,000 accessions of 44 species established
either from seeds or clonally located in 38 sites in 15
countries the different regions in Africa, Latin America
South Asia and South East Asia.
• 2280 accession of 120 species are held at Kunming
Institute of Botany genebank, China and the
Millennium Seed Bank, UK as safety duplicates
• Over 500 accessions representing 120 agroforestry
tree species deposited at Svalbard Global Seed Vault,
Norway

4. Agroforestry Tree Germplasm Management
Characterization Fruit/seed collected from planted or
wild tree stands
Further growth evaluation in
the field
Lowseednumbers
–multiplication
Lowviability–
regeneration
Seed extraction and
cleaning
Seed drying and moisture
determination
Viability and health
assessment
Safety backup at
Svalbard
Long-term storage/safety
duplication with partners
Medium-term
storage
Seed
distribution
Documentation is a
key activity in all
processes
Periodic
monitoring
Seedling growth &
health evaluation at the
nursery

7. Strychnos cocculoides
Msekera, Zambia
Bactris gasipaes
Ucayali, Peru

8. Irvingia wombolu
Mbalmayo, Cameroon
Tamarindus indica
Dinderesso, Burkina Faso

9. Guazuma crinita
Ucayali, Peru
Warburgia ugandensis Muguga, Kenya

10. Recalcitrant seed propagation and testing
Field genebank activities
Field evaluation Seedling growth evaluation and distribution

11. Characterizing diversity
Morphological
• Fruit shape diversity
• Number of fruits per tree
• Number of seeds per fruit Genetic
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20
40
60
80
VitC(mg/100g)
High vit. C
Mango variety
Nutritional

12. Case Example 2: Dacryoides edulis
Fast growing cultivars and better product quality selection

13. A. Trees for Products
B. Trees for Services
fruit firewood medicine income Sawn wood fodder
Soil fertility Carbon erosion watershed shade biodiversity
The right tree for the right place

14. Thank you