2006). Several have been characterized explicitly to identify materials that show promise for cooking and flour production. Fruit products are destined above all for local markets and only to a lesser extent for national or international markets. Characterizing peach palm collections is a first step toward enhance the use of conserved material. Ideally, this should involve

an iterative dialogue between researchers, producers and customers. Participatory domestication www.selleckchem.com/products/mx69.html of agroforestry species offers a useful tool for better enabling small-scale producers to enhance their livelihoods through sustained improvement in productivity while at the same time conserving genetic resources on farm (Weber et al. 2001). In 1997, the World Agroforesty Centre (ICRAF) and Peru’s National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA) initiated participatory genetic improvement for peach palm heart production and fruit harvesting in the Peruvian Amazon (Weber et al. 2001; Cornelius et al. 2010). Table 2 Status of peach palm collections in the Amazon, after Scheldeman et al. (2006) Collection Germplam Limiting pest and 4SC-202 mw diseases Agronomic management Products Identified markets (local, national., regional., global) Nr. of accessions Characterized Clones selected

Yes/no Objetives Yes/no Objectives Embrapa-Acre (Brazil) 10 ± Identification of promising material No – – Intermediate – Local Embrapa-Amapá (Brazil) 200 Y Selection for palmheart – – – – – – INPA (Brazil) 729 Y Fruit and palmheart

quality No – Rinchophora spp. Intermediate Palmheart and cooked fruits Fruits: local Palmheart: national, regional, global Embrapa-Amazonia Oriental (Brazil) 70 (fruit) 84 (palmheart) Y Identification Inositol monophosphatase 1 of promising material (morph.) No – – Intermediate Palmheart Fruits: local Palmheart: national, regional Embrapa-Roraima 105 ± Selection for palmheart No – – Intermediate – Local Iphae-Bolivia 200 Y Accesions without spines ± Seed improvement for plants without spines Rinchophora spp. and rodents Intermediate Fruit production for cooked fruits, flower, biscuits, liquor and icecream Local Coorpica-Colombia 50 Y Identification of promising material No – – – – – INIAP-Ecuador 121 ± Agronomic traits Yes 4 clones for resp. palmheart and fruit quality – Advaned (palmheart) Intermediate (fruit) Palmheart Fruits: local Palmheart: national, regional, global INIA/ICRAF -Peru 350 Y Production of fruits and resprouts No – Herminia Intermediate Fruit production for cooked fruits and flower, and palmheart Local and national INIA-Venezuela 87 Y Productivity of all accessions. Characterization of 41 accessions (morph.., molec., and phen).