Latin America: A Model for the Global Plant Cryopreservation Initiative

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centre
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Center
cg.contributor.donorGlobal Crop Diversity Trust
cg.contributor.donorDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
cg.coverage.countryPeru
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PE
cg.creator.identifierDavid Ellis: 0000-0002-0209-2784
cg.creator.identifierRainer Vollmer: 0000-0001-8428-2241
cg.creator.identifierVania Azevedo: 0000-0003-1664-1382
cg.howPublishedFormally Published
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1089/bio.2025.0067
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn1947-5543
cg.issue1-12 p.
cg.journalBioPreservation and BioBanking
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.actionAreaGenetic Innovation
cg.subject.cipCRYOPRESERVATION
cg.subject.cipGENETIC RESOURCES
cg.subject.cipGENEBANK
cg.subject.cipBIODIVERSITY FOR THE FUTURE
cg.subject.cipCLIMATE CHANGE
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hunger
cg.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on land
dc.contributor.authorEllis, David
dc.contributor.authorVollmer, R.
dc.contributor.authorSouza, F.V.D.
dc.contributor.authorAzevedo, V.C.R.
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-16T14:46:00Z
dc.date.available2025-07-16T14:46:00Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/175649
dc.titleLatin America: A Model for the Global Plant Cryopreservation Initiativeen
dcterms.abstractLatin America (Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America) is a megadiverse region. From Mexico and the Caribbean, through Central America to the Amazon and Andes, Latin America’s botanical diversity contributes significantly to global food production and security, as it is the region of domestication for crops essential to human survival, including maize, potato, cassava, sweet potato, and beans. However, Latin America is also one of the most threatened regions with massive loss of native habitat where cultivars of these domesticated crops and their wild relatives, invaluable for new traits important for the adaptation to the abiotic and biotic challenges from climate change, currently exist. Many of these crops are vegetatively propagated, and their unique allelic makeup is crucial to conserve. Unfortunately, these unique genotypes cannot be conserved as seed and are at risk of vanishing forever due to the lack of secure conservation methods. The Global Plant Cryopreservation Initiative (GPCI) is addressing this challenge by providing a secure, long-term method for conserving plant diver sity which cannot be conserved as botanical seed. The Latin America hub for the GPCI, at the International Potato Center (CIP) in Peru, is a model for how to mobilize and build capacity at the country level through national pro grams to conserve their genetic resources. Starting with a regional in-person workshop in 2022, CIP has maintained momentum for a plant cryopreservation network in Latin America by holding annual regional virtual cryopreserva tion meetings. CIP provided in-person capacity training for Latin American researchers in plant genetic resources conservation, with a special focus on cryopreservation. CIP has also implemented national plant cryopreservation programs in Ecuador and Chile, which include backing up their accessions in CIP’s “cryo-vault.” These activities provide the foundation for the future of a strong, lasting plant cryopreservation community of practice throughout Latin America.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademics
dcterms.audienceCGIAR
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitioners
dcterms.audienceDonors
dcterms.audienceExtension
dcterms.audienceFarmers
dcterms.audienceGeneral Public
dcterms.audienceNGOs
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makers
dcterms.audienceScientists
dcterms.bibliographicCitationInternational Potato Center. 2025. La papa que da fuerza. CIP. 11 p.
dcterms.issued2025
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseOther
dcterms.subjectcryopreservation
dcterms.subjectplant genetic resources
dcterms.subjectbiodiversity
dcterms.subjectresource conservation
dcterms.subjectgermplasm
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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