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EiB Annual Meeting 2019 Highlights
EiB news | Sam Storr | 16/12/2019
A common vision for CGIAR breeding backed by funders, with a view to One CGIARAt its 2019 annual meeting, the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform outlined an ambitious vision for breeding program modernization designed to deliver on the two key metrics demanded by the donors behind Crops to End Hunger: greater rates of variety...
CGIAR and NARS cassava and yam breeders visit Brazil
EiB news | Sam Storr | 2/12/2019
During the week of 12 August 2019, cassava and yam breeders from CGIAR and national agricultural research centers in Colombia, Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania participated in an EiB-sponsored visit to Brazil.After carrying out assessments at 13 CGIAR centers, the trip was one of the improvement opportunities...
Enterprise Breeding System hackathon
EiB news | Sam Storr | 22/11/2019
First steps taken to unify CGIAR-NARS breeding softwarePhoto credit: CIMMYT / Eleusis Llanderal ArangoFrom 21 October to 1 November, software developers and administrators from several breeding software projects met at the headquarters of the International Maize & Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico to work on delivering...
How much does it cost to develop and deliver improved maize varieties in Africa?
EiB news | Sam Storr | 3/10/2019
By Jerome Bossuet From 10-12 September, members of the Global Maize Program at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) team met with breeders, seed system specialists, research associates, technicians and enabling technology leads...
Digitization survey results announced
EiB news | Sam Storr | 28/8/2019
In March 2019, EiB surveyed its members to identify the models of equipment currently used to digitize breeding operations.These include package printers, label printers, barcode readers, electronic data collectors and seed counters that can be used to speed up, standardize and introduce efficiency savings into breeding program...
Applying advanced genomics and data tools to complex polyploid crops
EiB news | Sam Storr | 4/6/2019
CGIAR and public sector experts met at the International Potato Center (CIP, Peru), May 8-10, 2019 to evaluate genomics resource needs and demonstrate new tools and methods for polyploid crop breeding. Some of the most important crops in...
Breeders find strength in diversity at EiB contributor meeting
EiB news | Sam Storr | 3/12/2018
Around 115 members of the CGIAR breeding community, plus others representing national programs, universities, funders and the private sector, met for a three-day discussion of how to co-develop the next generation of advanced breeding programs that will improve the rate at which resource-...
Genotyping workshop for transformative rice breeding in Bangladesh
EiB news | Sam Storr | 10/10/2018
During 17-21 September, 22 members of the transformative rice breeding project at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) received training in high-throughput genotypic selection and analysis as part of the collaboration between EiB and the High-Throughput Genotyping Project...
IRRI gathers researchers to advance breeding programs around the world
EiB news | Sam Storr | 28/9/2018
Last August, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) hosted more than 40 participants from public sector breeding programs across ten countries for the Joint Breeders’ Training and Workshop, in collaboration with EiB and the Genomic Open-Source Breeding Informatics...