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GCP at its founding: What was the vision?
A walk down memory lane with Masa We caught up with Masaru Iwanaga (pictured right), previously Director General of CIMMYT in 2002–2008, and now President of the Japan International Research Center...
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On common ground – A longstanding association
SDC and GCP Today, we catch up with SDC’s Carmen Thönnissen (pictured). She walks us through the whys of Switzerland’s continued funding to GCP that has spanned nearly the Programme’s entire lifetime....
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Banana genetics: (not-so-)Easy as ♫ABC, 123♫
Getting to the core of a world-favourite dessert by unravelling banana’s origin and genealogy GCP has enabled us to lay a credible foundation, which gave us a leg-up in the intense competition that...
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Beans: Sidestepping variety… to create varieties to combat drought, disease...
BREAK-TIME AND BRAKE-TIME from beans for a bit: Steve Beebe takes a pause to strike a pose in a bean field. “These [molecular breeding] techniques, combined with conventional methods, shorten the time...
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Born in Africa: A lifelong cross-continental love affair with science
Sigrid Heuer Meet Sigrid Heuer (pictured), a Molecular Biologist and Senior Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Her lively and riveting story will take us from Africa through...
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Food for thought on video: a ‘rice-bowl of research’ spiced with flavours...
Steaming rice bowl What’s the latest from ‘GCP TV’? Plenty! With a world-favourite – rice – featuring high and hot on the menu. Now serving our latest news, to tease your taste-buds with a...
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Cassava on the catwalk: Ghanaian ‘make-over’ for crop-science underdog
‘Made (up) in Ghana’ In the world of crop research as in the fashion industry, there are super-models, mere models, spectators and rank outsiders. Make no bones about it, trusty old cassava (Manihot...
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A grounding in the reality of groundnut research in Africa, and why blood is...
Vincent Vadez Today, we travel to yet another sun-kissed spot, leaving California behind but keeping it legumes. We land in Africa for some ground truths on groundnuts with Vincent Vadez (pictured),...
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Cowpeas – uncowed and unbowed: believing that what could be can be, in breeding
Phil Roberts Like its legume relatives, cowpeas belong to a cluster of crops that are still referred to in some spheres of the crop-breeding world as ‘orphan crops’. This, because they have largely...
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2 – 1 = 3: Seeking sorghum solutions, breeding for more yield with less water
One of the greatest challenges of our time is growing more crops to feed more people, but using less water Sorghum is one of the most ‘efficient’ crops in terms of needing less water and nutrients to...
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