Initiative:

Breeding Resources

Providing breeders and researchers worldwide with top-tier services

We are a global service provider facilitating the development of better crop varieties worldwide. We offer streamlined, top-tier breeding services to CGIAR breeders, breeding programs, and esteemed partners like National Agricultural Research and Extensions Systems (NARES) and Sub-Regional Organizations. Our clientele is expanding and in the coming years, we will concentrate on broadening our reach and enhancing our service offerings.

Highlights

What to expect from Breeding Resources Initiative in 2024

We are increasingly becoming a service provider rather than a project-based initiative.

What we do

Our Solutions

Our external platforms

Service Request Portal: The Service Request Portal is a cloud-based one-stop shop for ordering BRS services. This dynamic platform enhances user engagement, pools Center resources, and ensures instant access to new data and resources.

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Enterprise Breeding System: The Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) is an open-source breeding informatics software being developed for crop breeding programs serving resource-poor farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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Breeding Analytics Pipeline: The Breeding Analytics (BA) Pipeline as a cutting-edge tool designed to guide decision-making processes in global crop breeding. It extracts crop breeding data from diverse databases and conducts complex analyses for crop breeders.

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Learning Management System: A modern Learning Management System (LMS) has been introduced to make training scalable and efficient, and we collaborate with top agricultural universities and industry partners to enhance training experience and impact.

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Toolbox: The Genetic Innovation Toolbox hosts details for using our low- and mid-density genotyping services, as well as tools, guides, best practices and training to create a culture of continuous improvement in breeding programs, enabling effective mechanization, automation and adoption of precision and high-throughput phenotyping tools.

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