Overview of rice breeding task force and data management strategies

Agronomy & processing and value addition task force workshop

Overview of Africa Rice Breeding Task Force

Ibnou Dieng, biometrician
on behalf of Moussa Sie, Senior Breeder & Africa Rice Breeding Task Force Coordinator
AfricaRice

Cotonou, Benin, 22-25 November 2011

Outline

A. Overview of the Africa Rice
Breeding Task Force
1. Introduction
2. Objectives
3. Partnership
4. General approaches

B. Data management strategies


1. Introduction: history of partnership

• IRTP - 1985 1990s • ROCARIZ - 2000
• CORAF Rice • WARDA working • …
network - 1986 group -1990
• INGER - 1991
• WCA breeding TF
- 1992
1980s 2000s


1. Introduction: call for a Task Force
1. Despite a long tradition of
partnership, rice breeders in
SSA are always an endangered
species
2. To overcome this situation, the
Second Africa Rice Congress
(march 2010) called for the
revival of the successful Task
Force approach,
3. For an improved research and
extension capacity on the
continent through a
collaborative approach to rice
breeding

2. Objectives:

1. General objective
• To accelerate the
development and
deployment of the next
generation of elite rice
varieties for major
production systems in
SSA.


2. Objectives:
2. Specific objectives
• Adopt a systematic
collaborative approach to
rice breeding
• Facilitate access of African
rice breeders to new
materials
• Stimulate rice germplasm
evaluation across the
continent,
• Shorten the time needed to
deploy new rice varieties for
major productions systems
in SSA

3. Principles of partnership

Bring together both National
and International rice
researchers as a regional group
for a well focused and
sustainable approach to the
problem


3. Principles of partnership

The Task Force consists of
an Africa-wide collective research
for development effort on critical
thematic areas in the rice
sector, based on the principles of
1. sustainability,
2. buildup of critical mass,
3. and ownership by NARS


4. General Approaches of BTF
1. Enhance collaboration with
NARS breeders to improve
adaptability of new
germplasm to farmer
growth conditions and
consumer
preferences, through
• early involvement of NARS
breeders and farmers in the
varietal development and
testing process, and
• more effective and faster
variety testing and release
mechanisms

1. Coordinator of Africa
Breeding Task Force: Dr. Sie
Moussa, senior breeder
2. Regional breeding
coordinators lead breeding
teams for all major mega-
environments:
• WCA – irrigated
lowland, rainfed
lowland, upland, other
ecosystems (mangrove, deep
water)
• ESA – irrigated and rainfed
lowland, upland, high elevation



1. Platform to evaluate
lines in multi-
environment using
the same evaluation
method
2. From 500 lines in
regional trial to 5
nominated line per
year



1. The breeding lines are
provided by partners 13%

(IARCs, NARS) 39%

2. For example, in
34%
2011, 13% of the
breeding lines were 14%
nominated by
NARS, 34% by
AfricaRice, 14% by IRRI
and 39% by CIAT NARS AfricaRice IRRI CIAT


In addition to standardizing
rice breeding practices and
to facilitating experience-
sharing for problem solving
A key issue is
3. Capacity building
• Experimental designs
• Germplasm database
management
• Data collection and
analysis
• Support MSc and PhD
students


A Web site has been developed
http://www.africarice.org/afribreed/

• Share information and documents within the TF and from
TF to the public
• Jointly write documents online
• Plan activities and share calendars

1. Public: the users will be able to see general
information only
2. Members: the Task Force national focal point can
see, add, delete, and modify any section of the site.


Visit with Dr. Maji Nigerian breeder


2010 Monitoring tour for some key sites


AfricaRice Breeding Task Force Annual Meeting

Data
management
strategies

Ibnou Dieng, biometrician
AfricaRice

Cotonou, Benin, 22-25 November 2011

Introduction
1. Data is the driven force
behind any successful
business
2. The use of standard data
formats for documenting
experiments and
modeling crop growth
and development can
greatly facilitate
exchange of information
and software, allowing
researchers to focus on
science rather than on
re-formatting data


The information challenge
1. Where is my
information?
2. How do I get it when I
need it?
3. What does it mean?
4. Can I trust it?
5. How do I get it in the
form I need?
6. How do I get it where it
needs to go?
7. How do I control it?


Some existing tools

1. Some largest sustained
effort to promote the use
of standards in relation
to field research:
• International Benchmark
Soils Network for
Agrotechnology Transfer
(IBSNAT) -
• International Consortium
for Agricultural Systems
Analysis (ICASA)
• Integrated Breeding
Platform (GCP)

ICASA standards: the goal

1. To provide a
reliable, portable, and
flexible structure both for
documenting field
experiments (or their
equivalents in greenhouses
or growth chambers) and
for specifying realistic
conditions for running
dynamic simulation models.

AfricaRice Breeding Task Force Annual Meeting, Cotonou, 11-12 May 2011

Relations among subsets in one experiment
dataset


Data collection and submission
1. Automatic data gathering
using handheld device
(tablets).
2. Development of a web-
portal application between
the partners to ensure on-
line submission of the
data, including metadata
and raw data


Thank you! Merci!

Center of Excellence for Rice Research

Research Days 2010, 29 Nov-2 Dec 2010, Cotonou, Benin

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