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March 2009
Below are the winners of the 2nd GSS call for proposals.
This second call for proposals was announced in June 2008 in coordination and collaboration with calls from the Global Crop Diversity Trust (the Trust), which focused on phenotyping, and the Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB), whose focus was on capacity-building.
Special congratulations Eureka Teresa M. Ocampo, who was successful in all three Calls (ie. selected by the GSS, the Trust and GIPB). More details:
| Name | Institution | Country | Crop |
| Eureka Teresa M. Ocampo | Institute of Plant Breeding, Crop Science Cluster, College of Agriculture, University of The Philippines | The Philippines | Musa |
The following four winners, listed alphabetically, were successful in two of the three Calls (ie. selected by the GSS, and the Trust OR GIPB, as indicated in the final column):
| Name | Institution | Country | Crop | Selected by the GSS and: |
| Boris Sagredo | Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) | Chile | Potato |
GIPB |
| Dindo Tabanao | Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) | The Philippines | Rice | GIPB |
| Jorge Antonio Rojas Beltrán | PROINPA Foundation | Bolivia | Potato | the Trust |
| Tzvetelina Stoilova | Institute of Plant Genetic Resources | Bulgaria | Phaseolus | the Trust |
The following 21 winners, listed alphabetically, were successful in the GCP's GSS Call:
| Name | Institution | Country | Crop |
| Asrat Asfaw Amele | Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) | Ethiopia | Phaseolus |
| Charles Lung'aho | Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) | Kenya | Potato |
| Edson Amorim | Embrapa Cassava and Tropical Fruits | Brazil | Musa |
| Efren Santos | Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador (CIBE), Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) | Ecuador | Musa |
| Emmanuel Okogbenin | National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) | Nigeria | Cassava |
| Erika Salazar | Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) | Chile | Maize |
| Francisco Vilaró | Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) | Uruguay | Potato |
| James Karanja | Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) | Kenya | Maize |
| Jayanta Tarafdar | Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (State Agricultural University) | India | Sweet potato |
| Jorge Antonio Rojas-Beltrán | PROINPA foundation | Bolivia | Maize |
| Jorge Jimenez Davalos | La Molina National Agrarian University | Peru | Barley |
| Kanokporn Triwitayakorn | Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Mahidol University | Thailand | Cassava |
| Kassahun Bantte Bisetegn | Jimma University--College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine | Ethiopia | Sorghum |
| Lalith Perera | Coconut Research Institute | Sri Lanka | Coconut |
| Marian Quain |
Crop Research Institute at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI–CSIR) |
Ghana | Sweet potato and Yam |
| Mario Paredes | Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Quilamapu | Chile | Phaseolus |
| Raveendra Gadag | Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) | India | Maize |
| Rogerio Chiulele | Faculdade de Agronomia e Engenharia Florestal, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Mozambique | Mozambique | Cowpea |
| Ruth Thompson |
Crop Research Institute at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI–CSIR) |
Ghana | Cassava |
| Sivakumar Subbarayan | Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) | India | Maize |
| Wickneswari Ratnam | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia | Malaysia | Rice |
In addition to the above, GCP is also considering another five proposals on cowpea, subject to procuring the appropriate molecular tools for the proposals. The four are:
| Name | Institution | Country | Crop |
| Jorge Berny | Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP) | Mexico | Cowpea |
| Kenneth Fafa Egbadzor | Plant Genetic Resources Research | Ghana | Cowpea |
| Mysore Uma | University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore | India | Cowpea |
| Ruth Thompson |
Crop Research Institute at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI–CSIR) |
Ghana | Cowpea |
| Tzvetelina Stoilova | Institute of Plant Genetic Resources | Bulgaria | Cowpea |
