Elite Germplasm Dissemination and
Evaluation Networks (EGDEN) based at IRRI HQ, comprises of 3 pre-variety elite
rice breeding lines sharing and evaluation as trials in partnership with national
partners from government public sector and non-government private sector
companies. EGDEN only shares what are known as Plant Genetic Resource for Agriculture - Under Development, (PGRFA-UD, FAO, http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty/en/). All rice breeding lines are shared with
Standard Material Transfer Agreements under the system of Multi Lateral Sharing
(MLS) devised for germplasm sharing by FAO and with Open Material Transfer
Agreement (OMTA) by IRRI specific to networks.
The networks
do not share any Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) or Gene Edited
lines (GE) or Hybrid rice lines. All network breeding lines are inbreds and
shared in the form of trial kits with trial designs and protocols. The networks
also do not share individual breeding lines similar to that of
GeneBanks.
These networks are
- International Network for Genetic
Evaluation of Rice (INGER) – This is a global network established in 1975
to share elite rice breeding lines to the national public sector partners in
all rice production countries. These breeding lines are shared after several
years and locations of testing within the rice breeding program at IRRI. By
testing these in several locations and years, IRRI breeders assess the
performance of these breeding lines under different environments and climate on
a yearly basis and then best lines based on data analysis are nominated to the
network. This means national partner who test these entries in their location
get opportunity to further select best lines suited to their target locations
in their countries and “fast track” nominations to candidate breeding lines to
the national variety systems for further evaluations and variety releases. This
process saves several years of evaluations and also resources to the national breeding
programs. INGER evaluates elite breeding lines in several countries as to date.
- ASEAN RiceNet- This is an elite rice germplasm sharing network
specifically for ASEAN member states (AMS) namely 1. Lao PDR, 2. Vietnam, 3.
Myanmar, 4. Thailand, 5. Cambodia, 6. Philippines, 7 Malaysia, 8. Indonesia 9
Brunei Darussalam. Singapore is a non rice producing nation. This network was
established in 2019 after the endorsement of the network proposal at the 41st
ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) meeting held at Brunei Darussalam
in 2019, by all ministries of Agriculture of AMS and the + 3 dialogue partner
countries China, Japan and Korea. The trials for this network commenced in 2020
and capacity building support is being provided to all members of ASEAN
RiceNet.
- Network for
Accelerated Rice Variety Impact (NARVI). The Network for Accelerated Rice Varieties and Impact (NARVI) is a new initiative that builds
on the successful model of networks such as INGER. NARVI
will provide access
to private partners
to a pipeline of new elite rice advanced lines (Plant Genetic
Resource for Agriculture - Under Development, (PGRFA-UD, FAO, http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty/en/) developed and owned by IRRI in a non-exclusive manner, for evaluation by the private
partners in the field, conduct
research, and select lines to release
as commercial varieties. This initiative will open additional channels for participation of private partners and accelerate the positive impact of IRRI’s elite rice lines by reaching the smallholder farmers faster
improved choices to farmers
suitable to their requirements.
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