TY - JOUR
T1 - African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC)
T2 - status of developing genomic resources for African orphan crops
AU - Hendre, Prasad S.
AU - Muthemba, Samuel
AU - Kariba, Robert
AU - Muchugi, Alice
AU - Fu, Yuan
AU - Chang, Yue
AU - Song, Bo
AU - Liu, Huan
AU - Liu, Min
AU - Liao, Xuezhu
AU - Sahu, Sunil Kumar
AU - Wang, Sibo
AU - Li, Linzhou
AU - Lu, Haorong
AU - Peng, Shufeng
AU - Cheng, Shifeng
AU - Xu, Xun
AU - Yang, Huanming
AU - Wang, Jian
AU - Liu, Xin
AU - Simons, Anthony
AU - Shapiro, Howard Yana
AU - Mumm, Rita H.
AU - Van Deynze, Allen
AU - Jamnadass, Ramni
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge contributions from Drs Sean Mayes, Wai Kuan Ho, and Presidor Kendabie from Nottingham University and Crops for Future (CFF), Malaysia/UK toward sequencing and publishing bambara groundnut genome (Chang et al. 2018a , c); Dr Damaris Odeny, International Centre for Arid and Semiarid Tropics, ICRISAT, Nairobi, Kenya, and Drs Elizabeth Balyejusa Kizito, Pamela Nahamya Kabod, and Sandra Ndagire Kamenya all from Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Uganda, for sequencing and publishing African eggplant genome (Song et al. 2019). Other collaborators and partners provided in the text and in the supplementary material are duly acknowledged. Donations of Hiseq?4000 by Illumina Inc., San Diego, USA, and Ion Protons and Ion Chefs by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, USA, are also duly acknowledged. The initial genome sequencing of the first five crops (Chang et al. 2018a , b , c , d , e , f) was supported by the Shenzhen Municipal Government of China, (nos. JCYJ20150831201643396 and JCYJ20150529150409546), the State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics (no. 2011DQ782025), and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and Write (no. 2017B030301011). Sequencing of African eggplant was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 31601042), the Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality under grant, (nos. JCYJ20151015162041454 and JCYJ20160331150739027), as well as the funding from Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and Write (no. 2017B030301011).
Funding Information:
material are duly acknowledged. Donations of Hiseq 4000 by Illumina Inc., San Diego, USA, and Ion Protons and Ion Chefs by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, USA, are also duly acknowledged. The initial genome sequencing of the first five crops (Chang et al. 2018a, b, c, d, e, f) was supported by the Shenzhen Municipal Government of China, (nos. JCYJ20150831201643396 and JCYJ20150529150409546), the State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics (no. 2011DQ782025), and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and Write (no. 2017B030301011). Sequencing of African eggplant was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 31601042), the Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality under grant, (nos. JCYJ20151015162041454 and JCYJ20160331150739027), as well as the funding from Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and Write (no. 2017B030301011).
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PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - Main conclusion: The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) successfully initiated the ambitious genome sequencing project of 101 African orphan crops/trees with 6 genomes sequenced, 6 near completion, and 20 currently in progress. Addressing stunting, malnutrition, and hidden hunger through nutritious, economic, and resilient agri-food system is one of the major agricultural challenges of this century. As sub-Saharan Africa harbors a large portion of the severely malnourished population, the African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) was established in 2011 with an aim to reduce stunting and malnutrition by providing nutritional security through improving locally adapted nutritious, but neglected, under-researched or orphan African food crops. Foods from these indigenous or naturalized crops and trees are rich in minerals, vitamins, and antioxidant, and are an integral part of the dietary portfolio and cultural, social, and economic milieu of African farmers. Through stakeholder consultations supported by the African Union, 101 African orphan and under-researched crop species were prioritized to mainstream into African agri-food systems. The AOCC, through a network of international–regional–public–private partnerships and collaborations, is generating genomic resources of three types, i.e., reference genome sequence, transcriptome sequence, and re-sequencing 100 accessions/species, using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. Furthermore, the University of California Davis African Plant Breeding Academy under the AOCC banner is training 150 lead African scientists to breed high yielding, nutritious, and climate-resilient (biotic and abiotic stress tolerant) crop varieties that meet African farmer and consumer needs. To date, one or more forms of sequence data have been produced for 60 crops. Reference genome sequences for six species have already been published, 6 are almost near completion, and 19 are in progress.
AB - Main conclusion: The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) successfully initiated the ambitious genome sequencing project of 101 African orphan crops/trees with 6 genomes sequenced, 6 near completion, and 20 currently in progress. Addressing stunting, malnutrition, and hidden hunger through nutritious, economic, and resilient agri-food system is one of the major agricultural challenges of this century. As sub-Saharan Africa harbors a large portion of the severely malnourished population, the African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) was established in 2011 with an aim to reduce stunting and malnutrition by providing nutritional security through improving locally adapted nutritious, but neglected, under-researched or orphan African food crops. Foods from these indigenous or naturalized crops and trees are rich in minerals, vitamins, and antioxidant, and are an integral part of the dietary portfolio and cultural, social, and economic milieu of African farmers. Through stakeholder consultations supported by the African Union, 101 African orphan and under-researched crop species were prioritized to mainstream into African agri-food systems. The AOCC, through a network of international–regional–public–private partnerships and collaborations, is generating genomic resources of three types, i.e., reference genome sequence, transcriptome sequence, and re-sequencing 100 accessions/species, using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. Furthermore, the University of California Davis African Plant Breeding Academy under the AOCC banner is training 150 lead African scientists to breed high yielding, nutritious, and climate-resilient (biotic and abiotic stress tolerant) crop varieties that meet African farmer and consumer needs. To date, one or more forms of sequence data have been produced for 60 crops. Reference genome sequences for six species have already been published, 6 are almost near completion, and 19 are in progress.
KW - Crop breeding
KW - Genomics
KW - Hunger
KW - Next-generation sequencing
KW - Nutrition
KW - Orphan crops
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U2 - 10.1007/s00425-019-03156-9
DO - 10.1007/s00425-019-03156-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31073657
AN - SCOPUS:85065657207
SN - 0032-0935
VL - 250
SP - 989
EP - 1003
JO - Planta
JF - Planta
IS - 3
ER -