NARI Main Highlands Programme Aiyura P.O. Box 384 Kainantu Eastern Highlands Province Tel: (675) 7373561 (675) 7373500 Fax: (675) 7373516 Url: http://www.nari.org.pg/research/mhp.htm Type of genebank: Field Contact Jacob Kiara (Research Programme Leader) narimh@global.net.pg Banana Local (drought collection for highlands; duplicated at Laloki) Cassava Local (working collection) 7 Sweet potato 1 906 in the main highlands 1008 collection since 1988 (excluding 255 mislabelled and duplicates) 56 in working collection 10 popular varieties in working collection 36 varieties collected in 1999 Taro Local (working collection) 52 10 1 G.C. Wiles & J. Demerua (2002) Present status of sweet potato genetic resources and possibility of in situ conservation in. NARI Conference Paper Series. No. 4.
NARI Wet Lowlands Islands Programme Keravat P.O. Box 204 Kokopo East New Britain Province Tel: (675) 9839145 (675) 9839189 Fax: (675) 9839129 Url: http://www.nari.org.pg/research/wlip.htm Type of genebank: Field Dr John Moxon (Research Programme Leader) narilli@datec.com.pg moxon@global.net.pg s Aibika Local 55 Alocasia macrorrhiza Local 13 Banana FHIA? Cassava 36 local 49 Cocoyam (Xanthosoma) Local 5 Giant swamp taro (Cyrtosperma) Local 1 Saccharum edule (pitpit) Local? Sweet potato 2 Selection from former lowlands 103 collection of ca. 900 varieties 3 78 first class varieties 12 second class 13 still under evaluation Taro (Colocasia) Local 130 2 Data from G.C. Wiles & J. Demerua (2002) Present status of sweet potato genetic resources and possibility of in situ conservation in. NARI Conference Paper Series. No. 4. 3 65 of these are also in tissue culture at Keravat (Wiles & Demerua, 2002).
Fruit trees Anacardium occidentale 1 Ananas comosus 1 Annona spp. 4 Artocarpus altilis Local 6 Artocarpus heterophyllus Indonesia 2 Averrhoa bilimbi 1 Averrhoa carambola 2 Barringtonia spp. 1 Canarium indicum 2 Carica papaya 4 Citrus aurantiifolia 2 Citrus grandis 2 Citrus paradisi 2 Citrus sinensis 2 Diospyros discolor 1 Durio zibethinus 1 Eugenia spp. 2 Ficus copiosa Local 4 Ficus tinctoria Local 1 Ficus wassa Local 1 Fortunella japonica 1 Garcinia spp. 3 Lansium domesticum 1 Litchi chinensis 1 Lucuma nervosa 1 Mangifera indica 4 Manilkara achras 1 Nephelium lappaceum 4 Nephelium mutabile 2 Passiflora spp. 2 Persea americana Australia 26 Pometia pinnata 1 Psidium friedrichsthalianum 1 Psidium guajava 3
Punica granatum 1 Syzygium spp. 2 Terminalia okari 6
NARI Dry Lowlands Programme Laloki P.O. Box 1828 Port Moresby National Capital District Tel: (675) 3235511 Fax: (675) 3234733 Url: http://www.nari.org.pg/research/dlp.htm Type of genebank: Field Rosa Kambuou (Programme Leader and Principal Scientist PGR) kambuou@datec.net.pg Jimmy Risimeri (Principal Agronomist, yams) Janet Paofa (Curator) Abelmoschus manihot (aibika) National collection 113 Root crops Cassava Local 77 Sweet potato Local (working collection) 16 Taro (Colocasia) Local (working collection) 19 Yams SPYN collection + national 348 collection D. alata Local 198 D. bulbifera Local 9 D. esculenta Local 84 D. nummularia Local 35 D. rotundata Local 22 Bananas
Bananas National collection 235 Diploid (AA) 84 Triploid (AAA, ABB, AAB) 124 Tetraploid (AAAA, AABB, AAAB) Wild spp 6 lost during 3 drought Others (AS, AAT, BB, AB) 6 Breeding lines (FHIA) 14 4
NARI Wet Lowlands Mainland Programme Bubia Sir Alkan Tololo Research Centre P.O. Box 1639 Lae Morobe Province Tel: (675) 4751033 Fax: (675) 4751034 Url: http://www.nari.org.pg/research/wlmp.htm Type of genebank: Field Alai Simin (Program Manager) nariwll@datec.com.pg Dr Birte Komolong (Principal Scientist, Plant Pathology) birte.komolong@global.net.pg Joe Guaf (Taro breeder) nariwll@datec.com.pg Banana Drought collection for lowlands Local (working collection) Hybrid dessert bananas Cassava Local (working collection) 29 Sweet potato Local (working collection) 22 Taro National collection, includes: 859-31 PNG TANSAO varieties - non-png TANSAO varieties from RGC - TaroGen PNG core planted separately from main collection 20 12 5
UNITECH Biotechnology Centre Department of Agriculture PNG University of Technology (UNITECH) P.O. Box 793 Lae Morobe Province Tel: (675) 4734454 4734455 Fax: (675) 4734477 4757667 Url: Type of genebank: In vitro Dr Miok Komolong (Acting Director) director@ubc.unitech.ac.pg mkomolong@ag.unitech.ac.pg Note 1. April 2004: the tissue culture facility is only being used for student projects, but protocols are available for taro, yams, potato, sweet potato, cassava, noni, vanilla, sugarcane and licorice.
1. Department of Agriculture PNG University of Technology (UNITECH) Private Mail Bag Lae Morobe Province Tel: (675) 4734451 Fax: (675) 4734477 4757667 Url: Type of genebank: Field Leucaena? Sweet potato From Kerevat 50
Ramu Sugar Ltd. Gusap P.O. Box 2183 Lae Morobe Province Tel: (675) 4743291 (675) 4743299 Fax: (675) 4743239 (675) 4743295 Url: Type of genebank: Field Steve Baux (Agricultural Manager) Lastus S. Kuniata (Senior Agronomist) lkuniata@ramusugar.com.png Saccharum spp. 800 Note - Ramu have a contract with a tissue culture facility in Australia.
PNG Cocoa and Coconut Institute P.O. Box 1846 Rabaul East New Britain Tel: (675) 9839131 (675) 9839108 (675) 9839224 Fax: (675) 9839115 Url: Type of genebank: Field Ted Sitapai (CEO) cciceo@datec.net.pg Peter Epaina (Plant Breeder, Cocoa) ccribreeding@datec.net.pg Theobroma cacao Local Trinitario Locally adapted Trinitario from < 100 materials introduced by Germans in the 1900 Over 400 collected from farmers' fields in PNG Could not be maintained in the field due to pest and disease problems. Promising genotypes selected after evaluation, maintained on station and being used in the breeding program. Improved Trinitario Developed in the 1960s 3 Maintained on station and used mainly as parents in the breeding programs Upper Amazonian Introduced from Trinidad or 100 Malaysia in the 1960s as seeds Developed several clones with
TA hybrids and hybrid derived Clones 'KEE' code names. Maintained on station and used mainly as parents in the breeding programs Derivatives of Trinitario x Upper Amazonian crosses Widely grown in farmers' fields in PNG Maintained on station and used in research programs Trinitario X Trinitario clones Clones derived from progenies of Trinitario x Trinitario crosses Maintained on station and being used in breeding programs Amazonian x Amazonian Clones Clones derived from progenies of Upper Amazonian x Upper Amazonian crosses. Maintained on station and being evaluated Amelonado Derivatives Clones derived from progenies of crosses with Amelonado and Trinitario or Upper Amazonian Identity of parental Amalonado genotypes not known Maintained on station and being evaluated Germplasm from Reading Uinversity and Kew Gardens CFC/ICCO/IPGRI project clones Clones derived from Malaysian Hybrids Broad range of genetic materials introduced from Reading intermediary quarantine and Kew Gardens The materials originally came from various countries and derived from Trinitarios, Amazonians or Criollo types Maintained in a field gene bank and been evaluated Introduced from intermediate quarantine stations at Reading University (UK) and Montpellier (France) Represent Upper Amazonian, Trinitario, Amelonado, Criollo and Refactario Maintained on station and being evaluated Clones derived from progenies of crosses between Amazonian and Trinitario numerous 70 200 100 70 25 180
Seeds introduced from Bal Plantation, Malaysia in 1996 Clones maintained on station and being evaluated
PNG Cocoa and Coconut Institute Stewart Research Station P.O. Box 642 Madang Tel: Fax: Url: Type of genebank: Field and in vitro Ted Sitapai (CEO) cciceo@datec.net.pg Coconut (field) Coconut (in vitro) International Coconut Genebank for the South Pacific (ICG-SP) 38 local talls 11 mostly local dwarfs 14 varieties from Tuvalu, Cook Islands, Marshall Islands and Fiji (also in nursery) 8 varieties introduced from Sri Lanka as embryos 49 22 Note Further germplasm awaited by ICG-SP: 1. 27 varieties originally designated by South Pacific countries 2. 13 varieties additionally designated from Fiji, Tonga and Indonesia (lists awaited from other countries)
Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd. Coffee Research Institute Pierre Charmetant Coffee Germplasm P.O. Box 105 Kainantu Eastern Highlands Province Tel: Fax: Url: Type of genebank: Field and in vitro Contact S.V. Tevo (Agronomy Department) cofres@datec.net.pg Coffee FAO Ethiopian collection (1964) from USDA IPGRI Yemen collection (1990) from CIRAD Commercial selections from Kenya, Tanzania, Costa Rica, Portugal, Australia and Brazil Several hundred 1. This collection is the results of bringing together in one central location material formerly at LAES, Saramandi, Siar and Ayura. 2. Robusta collection is duplicated near Madang.