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The Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project set out to improve the diversity, quantity, and accessibility of germplasm collections of crop wild relatives (CWR). Between 2013 and 2018, partners in 25 countries, heirs to the globetrotting legacy of Nikolai Vavilov, undertook seed collecting expeditions targeting CWR of 28 crops of global significance for agriculture. Here, we describe the implementation of the 25 national collecting programs and present the key results. A total of 4587 unique seed samples from at least 355 CWR taxa were collected, conserved ex situ, safety duplicated in national and international genebanks, and made available through the Multilateral System (MLS) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty). Collections of CWR were made for all 28 targeted crops. Potato and eggplant were the most collected genepools, although the greatest number of primary genepool collections were made for rice. Overall, alfalfa, Bambara groundnut, grass pea and wheat were the genepools for which targets were best achieved. Several of the newly collected samples have already been used in pre-breeding programs to adapt crops to future challenges.

The line MD 23-24 was introduced and tested in Costa Rica between 1996 and 1999, which served as the precursor of the Bribri bean variety. It was bred, at the Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano, by crossing (RAB 310/XAN 155) X (DOR 391/POMPADOUR G). The variety characterizes by showing a small bright red grain, with a II-B Type growth habit, an erect bearing and a vegetative cycle from 76-80 days. The two main life zones where it was evaluated were the bh-T (tropical humid forest) and the bmh-P (very humid pre-mountainous forest). Small commercial farms with low fertility soils prevailed in most of the evaluated localities. The Bribri variety outstood in average yield by 17.2% the national control and by 13,4% the local control. Its yield was 8.5% higher than the average yield of all the assays. The verifying and the validation stages were conducted based on the technology applied by the farmers in nine out of eleven localities. Bribri out-yielded the local controls in 67% of the plots at the verifying phase (with an average of 15.5% more kg/ha) and in 80% of the validation plots (with an average of 7.5% more kg/ha). Besides, it showed tolerance to web-blight (Thanatephorus cucumeris (A.B. Frank) Donk).

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Palabras clave: Diquís; decoloración del grano; fitomejoramiento participativo; Phaseolus vulgaris L.; sequía terminal. Keywords: Diquís; grain discoloration; participatory plant breeding; Phaseolus vulgaris L.; terminal drought. Recibido: 09/06/17Aceptado: 24/10/17 ABSTRACT "Diquís", shiny red common bean cultivar. Development of cultivars with high yield and adapted to the conditions of small farmers has been carried out in Costa Rica since 1995, through participatory plant breeding, and it´s one of the most economical strategies for facing crop problems. The objective of this work was to describe the process of development of cultivar Diquís (Phaseolus vulgaris) and its main characteristics. The Diquís variety was released in