No User case Region and countries Project title 1 Beans CIAT M Blair (Tropical Legumes I project, BMGF) Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi Improving tropical legume productivity for marginal environments in sub-Saharan Africa 2 Chickpeas ICRISAT Pooran Gaur (Tropical Legumes I & II projects, BMGF) Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya Asia: India Improving tropical legume productivity for marginal environments in sub-Saharan Africa 3 Cowpeas UC-R Jeff Ehlers (Tropical Legumes I project, BMGF) Africa: Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Senegal Improving tropical legume productivity for marginal environments in sub-Saharan Africa 4 Maize (DT Maize) CIMMYT Gary Atlin (Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa, BMGF) Africa: Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi , Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia , Zimbabwe Drought-tolerant maize for Africa, 5 Maize CIMMYT Vivek Bindiganavile (Drought Tolerant Maize for Asia, GCP) Asia: China, India. Thailand Drought-tolerant maize for Asia 6 Rice IRRI David MACKILL (STRASA Project, BMGF) Sub-Saharan Africa South Asia Stress-tolerant rice for poor farmers in Africa and South Asia 7 Rice CAAS-IRRI Zhikang Li (Green Super Rice, BMGF) Africa and Asia Green Super Rice for poor farmers of Africa and Asia 8 Sorghum CIRAD Jean-Francois Rami (GCP project) Africa: Ethiopia, Mali Yield improvement of sorghum in Africa through marker-assisted recurrent selection 9 Wheat Plant breeding Institute, University of Sidney Richard Trethowan (ACIAR project) Asia: India Molecular marker technologies for faster wheat breeding in India 10 Wheat USDA/CIMMYT Hans Braun (Rust, BMGF) Asia: China Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat 11 Rice AfricaRice Marie Noële N'djiondjop (GCP Challenge Initiative) West Africa - Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali Drought Tolerant Rice for west Africa 12 Wheat IARI, ICAR, New Delhi Vinod Prabhu (GCP Challenge Initiative) India Breeding and selection strategies to combine and validate QTLs for WUE and heat tolerance 13 Wheat Institute of Crop Science, (CAAS) Ruilian Jing, (GCP Challenge Initiative) China Breeding and selection strategies to combine and validate QTLs for WUE and heat tolerance 14 Cassava National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike, Nigeria Dr. Emmanuel Okogbenin, (GCP Challenge Initiative) Africa MARS projects to breed for disease tolerance and drought tolerance in cassava in West Africa