On Assignment: Potatoes in Peru by Michael Major

On Assignment: Potatoes in Peru by Michael Major

On Assignment: Lebanon

On Assignment: Lebanon

On Assignment: Alfalfa in Adelaide

On Assignment: Alfalfa in Adelaide

A four-day assignment to document a potato pre-breeding project. I started at the International Potato Center and Lima and then travelled to the central Andean region.

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Fanny Vargas, Herbarium Specialist, International Potato Center (CIP), Lima Peru. Photo Michael Major for Crop Trust. For more on the CIP Herbarium see https://cipotato.org/genebankcip/process/herbarium/

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Fanny Vargas, Herbarium Specialist, International Potato Center (CIP), Lima Peru. Photo Michael Major for Crop Trust. For more on the CIP Herbarium see https://cipotato.org/genebankcip/process/herbarium/

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Fanny Vargas, Herbarium Specialist, International Potato Center (CIP), Lima Peru. Photo Michael Major for Crop Trust. For more on the CIP Herbarium see https://cipotato.org/genebankcip/process/herbarium/

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Crop Wild Relative seedbank at the International Potato Center (CIP), Lima Peru. Photo Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Crop Wild Relative seedbank at the International Potato Center (CIP), Lima Peru. Photo Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Bettina Heider of the International Potato Center led the sweetpotato pre-breeding project entitled 'Targeted use of crop wild relatives for improved abiotic stress resistance in cultivated sweetpotato'. Photo Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Sweetpotato multiplication for genebank. International Potato Center (CIP), Lima Peru. Photo Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Trials of CWR-derived potatoes for late blight resistance at Oxapampa, Peru. Thiago Mendes and Mariela Aponte International Potato Center. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Trials of CWR-derived potatoes for late blight resistance at Oxapampa, Peru. Thiago Mendes and Mariela Aponte International Potato Center. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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CWR Project "Cross of selected clones introduced from INIA Uruguay during Phase 1 with local varieties and advanced adopted CIP-bred breeding clones with heat tolerance'. Huancayo greenhouse, Peru. International Potato Center. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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CWR Project "Cross of selected clones introduced from INIA Uruguay during Phase 1 with local varieties and advanced adopted CIP-bred breeding clones with heat tolerance'. Huancayo greenhouse, Peru. International Potato Center. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Monica Santayana, CIP. 'Flowering and reproductive traits evaluation of pre-breeding genotypes with new sources of disease resistance and long photoperiod response'. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Kristel Hotuya, a Master of Science student at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Peru). CWR Project 'Drought tolerance validation and screening in potato wild relatives and dihaploid (DH) progeny group'. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Monica Santayana, CIP. 'Flowering and reproductive traits evaluation of pre-breeding genotypes with new sources of disease resistance and long photoperiod response'. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Flor Osorio, CIP. CWR Project "Cross of selected clones introduced from INIA Uruguay during Phase 1 with local varieties and advanced adopted CIP-bred breeding clones with heat tolerance'. Huancayo greenhouse, Peru. International Potato Center. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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CWR Project "CWR sources of drought tolerance validated and introduced into 2x self compatible hybrids". Huancayo greenhouse, Peru. International Potato Center. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Potato diversity in Huancayo central market. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Potato diversity in Huancayo central market. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Potato diversity in Huancayo central market. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Farmers from Colpar in central Peru share their preferences for potatoes with researchers from the International Potato Center and Grupo Yanapai. Ultimately, the farmers will decide which potato varieties they plant in their fields so researchers are eager to get them involved early on in the selection process. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Farmers from Colpar in central Peru share their preferences for potatoes with researchers from the International Potato Center and Grupo Yanapai. Ultimately, the farmers will decide which potato varieties they plant in their fields so researchers are eager to get them involved early on in the selection process. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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Maryluz Contreras of Colpar in central Peru is sharing her knowledge about potatoes with the project team. In the fields near her home, project staff have planted two kinds of potatoes and are asking community members like Maryluz to select their preferred potato. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

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