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| While there is a multitude of high yielding modern crop varieties in use today, the work of plant breeders is by no means finished. A variety that is successful today can overnight be rendered ineffective by changes in the agro-ecosystem. One source of genes that can be utilized to meet these constantly emerging challenges to food production is the ancient farmer varieties. |
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| To support this process, seeds of a whole range of farmer varieties, or landraces, have been assembled in a worldwide network of genebanks. The N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR), the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the Australian Winter Cereals Collection (AWCC - hosted by the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries) houses an impressive combined collection of over 17,000 bread wheat landraces from a diverse range of environments to which they were adapted. |
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This website allows the user to efficiently interrogate the data associated with this collection and provides the capacity to identify custom subsets of accessions with single and multiple trait(s) that may be of importance to breeding programs. This information package can be used as a powerful tool to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of identifying raw material to screen for breeding programs. | |
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