Alemayehu Teressa Negawo

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the existing information on genetic resources, molecular diversity, yield and nutritional quality of Napier grass will be discussed and opportunities and future prospects for better conservation and use arising from the application of modern genomic tools in Napier Grass phenotyping and genotyping will also be discussed.

TL;DR: The diversity analysis revealed the existence of a substantial amount of variation in the ILRI collection and identified some unique materials from the EMBRAPA collection, demonstrating the potential of the overall population for further genetic and marker-trait-association studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a unique multidisciplinary approach used by the CGIAR Germplasm Health Units (GHUs) in ensuring phytosanitary protection for the safe conservation and global movement of germplasm from the 11 CGIAR genebanks and breeding programs that acquire and distribute germplasms to and from all parts of the world for agricultural research and food security.

TL;DR: A useful marker profile of an expanded Napier grass collection has been generated which could be used to enhance the conservation, use and management of the available genetic resources of this important forage crop.

TL;DR: Top performing genotypes were identified that are candidates for future forage improvement studies and diagnostic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and SilicoDArT markers and potential candidate genes that could differentiate high biomass yielding and high metabolizable energy genotypes in the collection are identified.