ecosystems of Burkina Faso, Mali and selection for drought tolerance and yield potential

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1 IBP Wiki : West Africa Use Cases Data Management Workshop Rice Challenge Initiative Improving rice productivity in lowland ecosystems of Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria through marker-assisted assisted recurrent selection for drought tolerance and yield potential t M.N. Ndjiondjop, G.Akinwale, H. Drissa, F. Cisse, A. Maji, M. Sow, I. Dieng IITA-Ibadan, Nigeria 7-11

2 1. Introduction Outline 2. MARS procedure scheme 3. What is done 3.1 Edition of germplasm lists 3.2 Data collection with handheld 3.3 Workbook file from germplasm list 3.4 Loading data to DMS Workplan

3 1. Introduction Rice is a staple food and above all a strategic commodity for Africa: Only 54%, of African rice demand, is produced locally Rice imports in Africa in 2009 approach 10 million tons Impact of drought (erratic rainfall and poor water control) in rainfed lowland ecosystems: 80% of the total rice area of Mali, 67% in Burkina Faso and 48% in Nigeria.

4 1. Introduction Ecosystem Burkina Faso Mali Nigeria Africa Irrigated 46% 22% 17% 20% Rainfed lowland 50% 13% 47% 34 % Deep water 0% 64% 6% 8% Rainfed upland 4% 1% 30% 38 % Total (M ha) Production (Mt ) Yield (t/ha) FAO (2005)

5 1. Introduction: Rice Challenge Initiative Objectives: to develop drought-tolerant cultivars with high yield potential in normal years and good yield under drought and other major stresses for each target environment Sponsor: Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) Target countries: Burkina, Nigeria and Mali Target environment: rainfed lowland ecosystem Duration: 4 years Partners: CIRAD, IRD, IRRI, INERA, IER, NCRI, CIAT and AfricaRice

6 1. Introduction: Rice CI Project Organization WP1- Consolidating knowledge Characterization of lowland environment Establishing drought evaluation sites and Designing ideotype for TPE WP2- Phenotyping For drought tolerance the GCP phase 1 genetic materials, MARS populations, and promising lines For yield & other traits under various levels of environment control WP3- Breeding Developing breeding populations Genotyping MARS populations QTL analysis Combining favourable alleles at target QTLs WP4- Capacity and Community Building Putting in place the rice drought molecular biology and breeding community of practice for West Africa Capacity building (PhD student and short training on specific topics) WP5- Project and information management For drought tolerance For yield & other traits under various levels l of environment control

7 2. MARS procedure scheme Elite donor 1 x Elite donor 2 F1. SSD For drought tolerance controlled drought (rainout shelter) F3. F3:5 Phenotyping 400 lines Bulk For yield potential natural hydrologic contrasts (toposequence) Drought Control - Soil water status - Traits for direct selection for DT - Weather & soil water status - Traits for indirect selection for DT - Yield and yield components - Morphogenetic responses (EcoMeristem) - Other traits of interest - Canopy transpiration (IR thermography) - Plant architecture & phenology - WUE (C13 isotope index) - Leaf rolling and senescence - Physiological i l stress (leaf fluorescence) - Diseases, grain quality,

8 2. MARS procedure scheme Hybridization Plant 5 lines in plots with Cross IR 64 as female parent to Block L09WSHB staggered planting to facilitate synchronization each of the 4 following lines: BW 348-1, B6144F-MR-6-0-0, FARO 35 and WAB638-1 F1 Nursery F 1 splantedingreenhouse 4 plots L09WSF 1 F 2 Nursery L10DSF 2 F 2 s space planted in field Plant seed from each selected F 1 plant in rows (1882 plots: 484 plots for the first cross, 493 for the second, 410 for the third and 495 for the fourth ) F 3 Nursery F 3 nursery rows 1882 plots. Planting list looks just L10WSF 3 like the F 2 list according to the single seed descent. F 4 Nursery L11WSF 4 F 4 nursery plots 1882 plots. Planting list looks just like the F 3 list according to the F 5 Nursery L12DSF 5 F 5 nursery rows single seed descent. Select one population and plant seed of F 4 plant from the selected cross.

9 3. What is done WP5: Project and information management The IRIS-RiceCI database was set-up and managed in Cotonou and the following issues were dealt with: Establishing nomenclature and standards for germplasm, Entering the germplasm lists including parental lines in the Database, Establishing nomenclature and standards for traits, Entering the traits list in the Database The list F1, F2 and F3 nurseries were also entered

10 3. What is done WP5: Project and information management The IRIS-RiceCI database was set-up and managed in Cotonou and the following issues were dealt with: Total of 1882 lines for the four crosses (ARC1, ARC2, ARC3 and ARC4 for each cross combination) Workbooks were created and transmitted to partners for data recording Data were received from partners on Excel Spreadsheets

11 3. What is done Number of Evaluation site Cross (female x male F3 lines Partner parents) IR64 x BW INERA Burkina Faso (Banfora) IR64 x B6144F-MR IER Mali (Longorola) IR64 x IITA212 (FARO 35) 410 NCRI Nigeria (Badeggi) IR64 x WAB AfricaRice Nigeria (Ibadan)

12 3.1 Germplasm lists: HB

13 3.1 Germplasm lists: F1

14 3.1 Germplasm lists: F2

15 3.1 Germplasm lists: F3

16 3.2 handheld device The feasibility of using an HP ipaq 211 Enterprise Handheld for data collection was carried out Training an AfricaRice staff to use the ipaq and transfer data to workbook The Biometrician also intended a training course on plant breeding data management and data analysis in Spain

17 3.2 Handheld device: Outline of the training 1. Create the fieldlog files from the ICIS fieldlog application 2. Transfer the fieldlog file to handheld 3. Collect data with handheld 4. Transfer the collected back to workbook

18 3.2 Handheld device: advantages 1. It saves time 2. More efficient 3. Data are more protected 4. It controls errors resulting from re coping of data 5. Difficulties initially faced: 1. Synchronization- solved 2. Collection of multiple samples- height 1 st sample; height 2 nd sample; etc.

19 3.2 Handheld device: advantages

20 1. The workbook file 3.3 Workbook file

21 Workplan Action / activities Implementing partners 1 Contribute to the training of NARS partners in X drought experimental design protocols and data collection, analysis and interpretation 2 Developing Workbook X X X X 3 Entering the phenotypic and molecular data X X X X from all the project members and AfricaRice in Excel Spreadsheets in the Database 4 Using electronic Handheld data recorders to enter the field data X X X X AfricaR Rice NCRI INERA IER

22 Collaborating Institutes NCRI Center of Excellence for Rice Research

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