3. + University of Queensland, Australia
+ National Banana Breeding Program, India
+ University of Malaya, Malaysia
Improvement of
banana
for smallholder
farmers
in the Great Lakes
Region
of Africa
Projectscope
5. Projectscope
multiple data types…
- Phenotyping experiments
- Participatory trials
- Farmer surveys
- Tissue culture
- Sequencing data
…and a wealth of biological
specificities!
- Various ploidy levels
- Germplasm groups
- Complex pedigrees
- Plant and field size
- Life cycle length
=> different tools and approaches!
6. => Need for an “in situ” resource, a breeding information repository
The banana “digital ecosystem”
Ex situ conservation
Molecular data
Semantic data
17. Field data collection: digitalize it!
MUSABASE
Surveys
https://odk.ona.io/
-> Need for dynamic data collection processes
-Farmer surveys
-Field procedure (crosses)
-Lab procedure (tissue culture)
18. Field data collection: digitalize it!
MUSABASE
Wish list + Crossing tool
http://btract.sgn.cornell.edu/
https://musabase.org/breeders/crosses/
Credits: Margaret Karanja, Trushar Shah (IITA)
19. MUSABASE
-> Link ex situ (MGIS) vs in situ (musabase)
data
-> Link additional molecular resources
(genome hub, gobii)
-> Additional tools for banana breeders
Perspectives: reach the “digital ecosystem”
https://brapi.org/
20. -> On site trainings
-> Data managers
MUSABASE
Perspectives: keep building partnership
Arusha Tanzania NARO Uganda IITA Uganda
BTI Cornell
-> Collaborations with Bioversity/Crop
ontology colleagues + new partners
21. Connecting dots between and
within projects…
MUSABASE
Questions?
gjb99@cornell.edu
http://slideshare.net/solgenomics
Field
Lab
MGIS
Crop ontology