PAK-US Cotton Productivity Enhancement Project
Period of Implementations
Sep 14, 2012 - Jun 30, 2017
Total budget
713,000
Project Name
Improving Resistance to Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCuV) and Supporting Cotton Best Management Practices for Small Farmers
About
PAK-US Cotton Productivity Enhancement Project (2012-17) is being executed in collaboration with ICARDA. It is launching several breeding programs to evolve virus free varieties of cotton in Pakistan.ICARDA has divided the project into 13 different smaller projects and allocated them to some of the best public research departments such as NIBGE, CCRI, NUST, CMBE, Punjab Universty etc. USDA is providing technical support to Pakistani scientists on cultivation of US germplasm in Pakistan.
Impact
Goals
To develop CLCV-resistant cotton variety, in the wake of success in evolving virus-free cotton line from US germplasm
Objectives
To develop CLCUV resistant germplasm for Pakistan using traditional breeding approaches
To manage cotton disease IPM techniques by adopting farmer's field school
To develop gene constructs and genetically engineered cotton germplasm resources
To establish cotton virology and whitefly haplotyping facilitation unit
Impact pathways
The project will screen the resistant and susceptible varieties against CLCuD and will grow resistant cotton varieties. In order to achieve its targets, intensive lab research will be done to develop gene constructs and genetically engineered cotton germplasm resources which will reduce cotton production risk (1.1.2) in the country and increase value capture by farmers (1.3.3) at ground level. Research on CLCUV resistant Germplasm will enhance genetic gain (1.4.3) and is expected to increase resilience of poor & vulnerable communities (3.3.1) against CLCU viral shocks. Moreover, cotton virology and whitefly haplotyping facilitation unit will increase institutional capacity of partner organization (D 1.1) to develop gene constructs, mapping and DNA sequencing and ultimately it will improve capacity for innovation in partner research organization (D 1.3).
Locations
Pakistan
30, 70
Project Management
Abdul Majid
Manager
Carol Elvin Kohen
Co-Manager
Partners
National Agricultural Research Center - NARC Palestine
Independent / Not associated
Central Cotton Research Institute Multan - CCRI Multan
Central Cotton Research Institute Sarkand - CCRI Sarkand
University of Punjab, National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology - UOP-CEMB
Ayub Agriculture Research Institute, Cotton Research Institute, multan - AARI - CRI
University of Punjab, Institute of Agricultural Sciences - UOP-IAS
National University of Science and Technology, Atta ur Rehman School of Applied Biosciences - NUST-ASAB
National Institute for Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering - NIBGE