Heat and Drought Wheat Improvement Consortium (HeDWIC)
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The document discusses the need for international collaboration in wheat research and improvement to address global challenges of increasing food production. It outlines several existing international networks and partnerships for wheat research, including the International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN), International Wheat Yield Partnership (IWYP), Wheat Initiative, and Heat and Drought Wheat Improvement Consortium (HeDWIC). These networks aim to increase wheat yields, address issues like climate change, and disseminate new varieties and technologies through a collaborative approach involving multiple countries and organizations.
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Heat and Drought Wheat Improvement Consortium (HeDWIC)
- 1. Promoting international collaboration in wheat Matthew Reynolds CIMMYT GPC Symposium Virtual, June 8th 2021
- 2. Outline • Background –need for international collaboration- • International Wheat Improvement Network • International Wheat Yield Partnership • The Wheat Initiative • Heat & Drought Wheat Improvement Consortium • Lessons learned
- 3. Global yield projections until 2050 Ray DK, Mueller ND, West PC, Foley JA (2013) Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050. PLoS ONE 8(6): e66428. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066428 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0066428 ---2.4% growth required to double production by 2050 Linear growth starting 1970 60% increase
- 4. Challenges to global crop production • Climate unpredictable, warmer, drier, etc. • Depleting water resources • Emerging diseases and pests and their new biotypes • Energy and fertilizer costs • Declining agricultural research capacity in LDCs • Soil degradation and erosion….. Photo: Jalal Kamali, 14 April16. Dezful, Khuzestan province, Iran
- 5. • 30% of the world’s arable land lost to erosion or pollution in the last 40 years. • Erosion rates from ploughed fields averages 10-100 times greater than rates of soil formation. • It takes about 500 years to form 2.5cm of topsoil under normal agricultural conditions. University of Sheffield’s Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, 2016 Soil loss: an unfolding global disaster
- 6. • Today more people are hungry than entire population of South Asia at beginning of Green Revolution (1970) • No. people living on <$2 /day same as in 1981 (~0.7 billion) • 180 million children <5 years malnourished – in Africa 40% of all children <5 Statistics on hunger Source: Hans Braun/World Bank
- 7. Impact of a 1% GDP growth from agriculture and non- agriculture on overall expenditures of the poor 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Poorest 10% Poorest 11-20 Poorest 21-30% 1 % GDP growth from Agriculture 1% GDP growth from non-Agriculture Source: Ligon and Sadoulet, 2007 in Worldbank 2008 : World Development Report
- 9. Importance of wheat as calorie source (2010-12) Source: FAO-Stats, 2015 20% of all calories in human diet globally Most widely grown crop globally
- 10. International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN) Coordinated by CIMMYT since 1960s Source: Kai Sonder & Hans Braun
- 11. • IWIN germplasm increased productivity for >100m farmers in LDCs (Lipton, Longhurst 1989; Evenson, Gollin 2003; Pingali et al., 2012) • MVs saved >20 m ha land from cultivation (Stevenson et al., 2013) • IWIN-related varieties cover over half wheat area in LDCs, giving additional value of US $2.2-$3.1 billion p.a. spread among both resource poor farmers and consumers (Lantican et al., 2016) • The benefit-cost ratio of this investment is over 100:1 (without considering avoidance of devastating disease pandemics) • IWIN has also amassed a database of over 11 million data points IWIN cost benefit
- 12. - 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 China EU + other high income countries ex-USSR Latin America S-Asia Sub-Saharan Africa W-Asia and N-Africa World Percentage of releases (%) Unknown Variety Non-CGIAR parents CGIAR Ancestry CGIAR Parent CGIAR Line Spring bread wheat releases by region and origin 1994-2014
- 13. Yield Heat Drought Yellow & Leaf Rust Fusarium Septoria Spot blotch Karnal Bunt Multiple Disease Resistance Fusarium, Septoria, Leaf Rust Septoria (T.durum) Heat Ug99 Green= Operational Red= Planned Phenotyping Platforms • Hubs for generating high quality phenotypic data, under defined good practices, and promoting training and sharing of the generated knowledge. • Some sites represent future climate analogues, others are hotspots for specific diseases. Rust Septoria Winter Wheat Heat Drought Yellow rust (Izmir) Wheat blast Yield (IN+PK) Heat Dry (IN) Heat Humid+ Wheat Blast (BD) Drought (IN) Heat Drought H-Fly LR-DW Yield Fusarium Yield Yield Global phenotyping network for wheat improvement
- 14. www.iwyp.org A Model for Using Collaborative International Research and Development to Address Important Global Problems International Wheat Yield Partnership
- 15. www.iwyp.org The Problem – Urgent Need to Increase Wheat Yields to Feed 9+ Billion People by 2050 Will require a 60+ % increase in wheat production to meet food demands by 2050
- 16. www.iwyp.org By deploying a new model for funding and conducting a coordinated international research program By combining the best ideas internationally By making scientific breakthroughs By being focused on delivery Discoveries Delivery Development Impact Increase the genetic yield potential of wheat by 50% by 2035 IWYP Goal and Strategy
- 17. www.iwyp.org Harvest Index Biomass Photosynthesis IWYP Hub(s) Traited Germplasm Markers Tools Methods Delivery Elite Lines (via IWIN, others) Phenology Spikelet Fertility Sorting and Assembling the Trait / Marker / Tool Outputs Technology Architecture Makers/QTL for yield components Energy Use Efficiency Grain size
- 18. www.iwyp.org IWYP HUB – Validation and Development HUB Platform approach for Translation Brings all discoveries into a single central source to compare and combine to seek synergies and generate added value Trait validation Precision phenotyping Field evaluation Prebreeding Trials and distribution (via IWIN, directly)
- 19. www.iwyp.org Testing sites for progeny of physiological trait (PT) based crosses (~ 50 sites) Pre-breeding nurseries distributed via IWIN • WYCYT: Wheat Yield Collaboration Yield Trial Reynolds M.P., Pask A.J.D., Hoppitt W.J.E., Sonder K., Sukumaran S., Molero G., Saint Pierre C., Payne T., Singh R.P., Braun H.J., Gonzalez F.G., Terrile I.I, Barma N.C.D, Hakim A., He Z., Fan Z., Novoselovic D., Maghraby M., Gad K.I.M., Galal E.G., Hagras A., Mohamed M.M., Morad A.F.A., Kumar U., Singh G.P., Naik R., Kalappanavar I.K., Biradar S., Sai Prasad S.V., Chatrath R., Sharma I., Panchabhai K., Sohu V.S., Mavi G.S., Mishra V.K., Balasubramaniam A., Jalal-Kamali M.R., Khodarahmi M., Dastfal M., Tabib-Ghaffari S.M., Jafarby J., Nikzad A.R., Moghaddam H.A., Ghojogh H., Mehraban A., Solís-Moya E., Camacho-Casas M.A., Figueroa-López P., Ireta-Moreno J., Alvarado-Padilla J.I., Borbón-Gracia A., Torres A., Quiche Y.N., Upadhyay S.R., Pandey D., Imtiaz M., Rehman M.U., Hussain M., Hussain M., Ud-Din R., Qamar M., Kundi M., Mujahid M.Y., Ahmad G., Khan A.J., Sial M.A., Mustatea P., von Well E., Ncala M., de Groot S., Hussein A.H.A., Tahir I.S.A., Idris A.A.M., Elamein H.M.M., Manes Y., Joshi A.K., 2017. Strategic crossing of biomass and harvest index—source and sink— achieves genetic gains in wheat. Euphytica 213:257-80
- 20. www.iwyp.org Funding Metrics to Date – Target US$100M
- 23. Endorsed by G20 Agriculture Ministries in 2011, WI provides framework for strategic research priorities encompassing developed and developing countries. Expert Working Groups: • Adaptation to wheat abiotic stress (included HeDWIC) • Control of wheat pathogens and pests • Durum wheat genomics and breeding • Global wheat germplasm conservation and use community • Improving wheat quality for processing and health • Nutrient use efficiency in wheat • Wheat Agronomy • Wheat breeding methods and strategies • Wheat information systems • Wheat phenotyping to support wheat improvement • Wheat Plant and Crop Modelling
- 24. Heat and Drought Wheat Improvement Consortium Prioritized by WI-ICC (Jan 2016)
- 25. Source: Nature Climate Change, 1793: (13 Jan) 2013 + 60C + 4.0C + 2.0C Change in spring wheat productivity by 2100 in 5 scenarios varying from 2C to 6C global average temperature increase
- 26. Response of farm yield to minimum temp NW Mexico
- 27. HeDWIC Development Broad consultation (370 people, 77 institutes, 32 countries): Determine most promising/necessary research areas Arrange traits/gene research into a rational framework Develop an organizational structure that facilitates translational research to breeding Develop a bioinformatics cyber-infrastructure to support research and delivery
- 28. Priority of heat & drought • Poll conducted on relative priorities for EWG AWAS • Heat and drought stress, i.e. HeDWIC clearly the top priority
- 29. Harnessing translational research for climate resilience of wheat
- 31. HeDWIC international collaboration including SATYN nursery sites
- 32. • Catalyzing new research opportunities • Disseminating new research and breeding technologies • Leverage of institutional capital • Translating research outputs of HeDWIC/AHEAD communities into breeding tools through translational research Added value of HeDWIC and the AHEAD umbrella for heat and drought: AHEAD Coordination Office @Wheat Initiative Initiative A HeDWIC Project N AHEAD Steering Committee Annual Meetings / Data Sharing / Seed Funding / Project Development
- 33. Setting up international collaborations • Clear new focus and targets • Pre-existing informal network • Survey literature & current research portfolios • Develop a proposal but don’t overly prescribe • ‘Theory of change’ • ‘Business case’ • Be prepared for a lot of leg work • Expect grey hairs!