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Price adjustment for genotyping shared services from August 2023
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 2/8/2023
Due to the recent inflationary pressures affecting various industries, including ours, a price adjustment of our Breeding Resources Initiative's genotyping shared services is scheduled to come into effect by the 15th of August. At CGIAR’s Breeding...
Boosting sweetpotato’s productive potential with hybrid breeding
Partner news | Adam Hunt | 9/5/2023
CIP has worked closely with agricultural research institutions across Africa and Asia on breeding and selection to ensure that more farmers get access to sweetpotato varieties with essential characteristics such as high...
1st East Africa Potato Network Breeders Meeting discuss improving potato breeding in the region
Partner news | Adam Hunt | 8/5/2023
The establishment of the East Africa Potato Breeding Network is expected to facilitate collaboration and communication among potato researchers, enhance the understanding of...
Genetic gains in Uganda maize breeding are strong – and heading for improvement
In the face of complex climate risks in Uganda, maize breeders are ensuring smallholder farmers have access to high-yielding and stress-tolerant maize varieties. Breeding programs from Uganda’s National...
New lab services and systems set to launch in early 2023
| Adam Hunt | 12/4/2023
To produce better crop varieties faster, breeding programs need to adopt the best services and technologies. In the past, CGIAR has sometimes lacked access or faced duplication or inefficiencies in providing or accessing these services. But, all these challenges are changing as the One CGIAR system and Breeding Resources Initiative move into their second year. Breeding programs can now expect a range of new and...
KALRO research station at Kiboko revamped to accelerate crop breeding
Partner news | Adam Hunt | 7/3/2023
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)’s research station at Kiboko, Kenya, where several partner institutions including the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), conduct...
Breeding Resources Initiative: Partner Updates 2023
EiB news | Adam Hunt | 20/2/2023
CGIAR Breeding Resource Initiative (led and managed by Genetic Innovation’s Breeding Research Services unit) sends out periodic updates to inform partners about plans, progress, events and resources. These updates are collated on this page. For more information,...
Leading with vision: Meet the Breeding Resources Initiative leads
| Adam Hunt | 15/2/2023
How can we ensure crop breeding programs best varieties, faster, and more efficiently? CGIAR’s Breeding Resources Initiative (BRI) is working to bring tools, technologies and services to programs in the CGIAR-NARES (national agricultural research and extension systems) networks.Through two short video interviews, Initiative lead Young Wha Lee, and co-Lead Sharifah Shahrul Syed Alwee (Senior Director,...
Five strides forward for CGIAR crop breeding resources and services
Impact | Adam Hunt | 24/1/2023
Sitting at the cutting edge of science, the crop breeding domain has been improving and refining tools, technologies and techniques. But adoption by public breeding programs focusing on Africa, Asia, and Latin America has often been slow. This...