Improvement of accession distinctiveness as an added value to the global worth of the yam (Dioscorea spp) genebank

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.issn2067-533Xen
cg.issue3en
cg.journalInternational Journal of Conservation Scienceen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.iitaYAMen
cg.subject.iitaGENETIC IMPROVEMENTen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT GENETIC RESOURCESen
cg.volume3en
dc.contributor.authorGirma Tessema, G.en
dc.contributor.authorKorie, S.en
dc.contributor.authorDumet, D.en
dc.contributor.authorFranco, J.en
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-13T13:41:43Zen
dc.date.available2017-02-13T13:41:43Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/79842
dc.titleImprovement of accession distinctiveness as an added value to the global worth of the yam (Dioscorea spp) genebanken
dcterms.abstractMisidentification of accessions is a common problem in genebanks. Along the years, mistakes accumulate and this is particularly true when dealing with a large number of accessions requiring annual regeneration. Human errors such as mislabeling or misreading and material mix up during planting or storage are the main causes for misidentification of accessions. The international collection of yam, maintained at IITA, has accumulated ‘non true to type’ accessions along the years. In the present study, 53 morphological descriptors were used to detect uniformity of individuals within accessions of the yam gene bank collection i.e. agro morphological mismatch between individual plants of the same accession. Based on a similarity matrix, individual pairs with less than 0.90 similarity coefficients, which varies in six descriptors and more, were considered as distinct and mismatched, whereas those that had similarity coefficients greater than or equal to 0.90 were considered as clones from the same parent. Overall, 20.60% of the total 3156 accessions were found not true to type i.e., misidentified individuals. The descriptive analysis shows that morphological traits like distance between lobes, upward folding of leaf along main vein, young stem color, old stem color, leaf shape, leaf density and plant vigor are the most discriminative descriptors for individual identification within accession. Some other traits were also found species specific and they may aid in distinguishing misidentifications between species.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGirma Tessema, G., Korie, S., Dumet, D. & Franco, J. (2012). Improvement of accession distinctiveness as an added value to the global worth of the yam (Dioscorea spp) genebank. International Journal of Conservation Science, 3(3), 199-206.en
dcterms.descriptionOpen Access Journalen
dcterms.extentp. 199-206en
dcterms.issued2012-07
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectmismatch identificationen
dcterms.subjectagro-morphological descriptorsen
dcterms.subjectdioscorea sppen
dcterms.subjectfield banken
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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