Breeding scheme optimization

Breeding pipeline manager

This tool aims to help breeding professionals to formalize the market segments, product profiles and breeding schemes associated to their breeding program(s). It serves as repository of valuable information that can be used for different purposes, e.g. discussions with leadership on proper targets, level of investment in different markets, breeding scheme optimization discussions to allocate resources more efficiently, share information with partners remotely, among others. The resulting documents can be considered the “blueprints” of the design step in the breeding process.

Putting gender and social inclusion at the heart of plant breeding

In this Story of Excellence, Vivian Polar (CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers & Bananas and the Gender and Breeding Initiative) shared how G+ Tools are being used to help plant breeders interpret gender research to create varieties that meet the needs of women and other farmers.

Modernizing CIP's potato breeding program

In this Story of Excellence, Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze (the International Potato Center, CIP) shares how CIP is optimizing and scaling up genotyping to accelerate breeding while maintaining low costs.

Characterization of rice quality traits to improve breeding for Latin America and the Caribbean

In this Story of Excellence, Juan Arbelaez (the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maribel Cruz (Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice) present their work on genetic and phenotypic characterization of rice grain quality traits to define breeding strategies for improving rice milling, appearance, and cooking qualities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

National breeding institutes deliver initial program costing at in-person training course

A new costing tool is helping national breeding programs get the financial data needed to improve their efficiency, effectiveness and transparency. And now, in its first in-person event since the beginning of the pandemic, CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) has prepped six African National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems (NARES) to fully cost their programs.

Basics of Genomic Selection

Genomic selection/prediction is becoming an important tool to maximize genetic gain in breeding programs. The method covers multiple ways to improve different aspects of the breeders’ equation.

Genomic Selection 8. The IRRI Rice Breeding Program

Parthiban Prakash presents the current state of genomic prediction application in the rice program at IRRI located in the Philippines. Prakash covers the application of GS to increase accuracy and change selection intensity in the IRRI rice program, discusses current plans to reduce cycle time and the challenges of implementing GS in an ongoing program.

Basics of Genomic Selection 1. Introduction

Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran (EiB) presents the genomic prediction workshop and outlines the topics to be covered and guest speakers.

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Genomic Selection 7. Genetic Variance and Logistics

Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran presents how to implement genomic prediction to properly manage genetic variance. The logistical challenges that will be faced during adoption are then discussed, along with a summary of the different uses of genomic selection (GS).

Genomic Selection 6. The CIMMYT Maize Breeding Program

Yoseph Beyene presents the current state of genomic prediction application in the CIMMYT maize breeding program in East Africa. Yoseph presents the use of GS to increase accuracy and change selection intensity in the maize program and discusses the challenges of implementation in an ongoing breeding program.