Videos
Breeding Informatics Network 2021 reflections
Other | 15/12/2021
On 15 December 2021, members of the Breeding Informatics Network (BrIN) came together to share their progress and experiences in the network.
Putting gender and social inclusion at the heart of plant breeding
Webinar recording | 29/11/2021
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
Webinar recording | 29/11/2021
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.
Seven habits for a highly effective breeding program – IRRI’s continuous improvement approach
Webinar recording | 22/11/2021
In this Story of Excellence, Princess Lilia dela Cruz (IRRI) shares the lessons learned by Integrated Research Support Team at IRRI, which supports breeders to improve operations so that they can focus on innovation.
Characterization of rice quality traits to improve breeding for Latin America and the Caribbean
Webinar recording | 21/11/2021
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.
Transforming for impact. EiB Virtual Meeting 2021 Day 3
Webinar recording | 18/11/2021
On the final day of the EiB Virtual Meeting 2021, Sarah Schmidt of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and Marian Quain of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Uganda discussed transformation from funders' and NARES perspectives.
Regional Sessions Americas / Africa. EiB Virtual Meeting 2021 Day 2
Webinar recording | 18/11/2021
Implementing change across the CGIAR and NARES breeding community, with case studies from Asia and Africa
Regional Sessions Asia / Africa. EiB Virtual Meeting 2021 Day 2
Webinar recording | 18/11/2021
Implementing change across the CGIAR and NARES breeding community, with case studies from Asia and Africa
EiB Virtual Meeting 2021 - Day 1
Webinar recording | 16/11/2021
In the opening sessions of the meeting, Michael Quinn and Barbara Wells expressed their visions for CGIAR breeding, before each of the seven EiB modules presented their work and entered into discussion with the 180 meeting participants.
Basics of Genomic Selection 9. Computational Aspects and Implementation
Other | 29/9/2021
Abhishek Rathore (ICRISAT) presents the current state of tools for data management and genomic prediction available at ICRISAT and national programs in India. Abhishek presents a path to the proper implementation of data management tools that ensures the successful deployment of GS in breeding programs. Case examples of crops adopting these systems and their current state are also presented.