Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: traditional foodways of the Isukha community of Kenya

This document presents the results of documentation of traditional foodways conducted in the Isukha community of Kenya within the project ‘Safeguarding traditional foodways of two communities in Kenya. The documentation was undertaken between 2010-2012 largely by pupils of two primary schools– Muraka and Shihuli assisted by their teachers, a local project coordinator and the project team mainly consisting of staff from National Museums of Kenya, Bioversity International and the Department of Culture

Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: a photobook of traditional foodways of the Isukha and East Pokot communities of Kenya

This photobook presents the results of traditional foodways documentation conducted in Isukha and East Pokot communities of Kenya within the project ‘Safeguarding traditional foodways of two communities in Kenya’ executed by UNESCO Nairobi Office. The documentation was undertaken between 2008-2012 largely by pupils of primary schools in Isukha and East Pokot. The pupils received great assistance from their teachers, local project coordinators and the project team mainly consisting of staff from National Museums of Kenya, Bioversity International and the Department of Culture

Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: a practical guide to documenting traditional foodways: Using lessons from the Isukha and Pokot communities of Kenya

This document presents the results of documentation of traditional foodways conducted in the East Pokot community of Kenya within the project ‘Safeguarding traditional foodways of two communities in Kenya. The documentation was undertaken between 2010-2012 largely by pupils of two primary schools - Chemolingot and Churo assisted by their teachers, a local project coordinator and the project team mainly consisting of staff from National Museums of Kenya, Bioversity International and the Department of Culture

MGIS: managing banana (Musa spp.) genetic resources information and high-throughput genotyping data

Unraveling the genetic diversity held in genebanks on a large scale is underway, due to advances in Next-generation sequence (NGS) based technologies that produce high-density genetic markers for a large number of samples at low cost. Genebank users should be in a position to identify and select germplasm from the global genepool based on a combination of passport, genotypic and phenotypic data. To facilitate this, a new generation of information systems is being designed to efficiently handle data and link it with other external resources such as genome or breeding databases. The Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS), the database for global ex situ-held banana genetic resources, has been developed to address those needs in a user-friendly way. In developing MGIS, we selected a generic database schema (Chado), the robust content management system Drupal for the user interface, and Tripal, a set of Drupal modules which links the Chado schema to Drupal. MGIS allows germplasm collection examination, accession browsing, advanced search functions, and germplasm orders. Additionally, we developed unique graphical interfaces to compare accessions and to explore them based on their taxonomic information. Accession-based data has been enriched with publications, genotyping studies and associated genotyping datasets reporting on germplasm use. Finally, an interoperability layer has been implemented to facilitate the link with complementary databases like the Banana Genome Hub and the MusaBase breeding database.Database URL:https://www.crop-diversity.org/mgis

MGIS: managing banana (Musa spp.) genetic resources information and high-throughput genotyping data

International audienceUnraveling the genetic diversity held in genebanks on a large scale is underway, due to advances in Next-generation sequence (NGS) based technologies that produce high-density genetic markers for a large number of samples at low cost. Genebank users should be in a position to identify and select germplasm from the global genepool based on a combination of passport, genotypic and phenotypic data. To facilitate this, a new generation of information systems is being designed to efficiently handle data and link it with other external resources such as genome or breeding databases. The Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS), the database for global ex situ-held banana genetic resources, has been developed to address those needs in a user-friendly way. In developing MGIS, we selected a generic database schema (Chado), the robust content management system Drupal for the user interface, and Tripal, a set of Drupal modules which links the Chado schema to Drupal. MGIS allows germplasm collection examination, accession browsing, advanced search functions, and germplasm orders. Additionally, we developed unique graphical interfaces to compare accessions and to explore them based on their taxonomic information. Accession-based data has been enriched with publications, genotyping studies and associated genotyping datasets reporting on germplasm use. Finally, an interoperability layer has been implemented to facilitate the link with complementary databases like the Banana Genome Hub and the MusaBase breeding database

Banana (Musa spp.) genetic resources information and high-throughput genotyping data

Unraveling the genetic diversity held in genebanks on a large scale is underway, due to advances in Next-generation sequence (NGS) based technologies that produce high-density genetic markers for a large number of samples at low cost. Genebank users should be in a position to identify and select germplasm from the global genepool based on a combination of passport, genotypic and phenotypic data. To facilitate this, a new generation of information systems is being designed to efficiently handle data and link it with other external resources such as genome or breeding databases. The Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS), the database for global ex situ-held banana genetic resources, has been developed to address those needs in a user-friendly way. In developing MGIS, we selected a generic database schema (Chado), the robust content management system Drupal for the user interface, and Tripal, a set of Drupal modules which links the Chado schema to Drupal. MGIS allows germplasm collection examination, accession browsing, advanced search functions, and germplasm orders. Additionally, we developed unique graphical interfaces to compare accessions and to explore them based on their taxonomic information. Accession-based data has been enriched with publications, genotyping studies and associated genotyping datasets reporting on germplasm use. Finally, an interoperability layer has been implemented to facilitate the link with complementary databases like the Banana Genome Hub and the MusaBase breeding database