Website information
In Website information you can find: Home, About this site, Contact us etc.
Announcements
On this page you can find newsletters as well as information on upcoming events, job opportunities or scholarships related to genebanks or genebank management.
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Newsletters |
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Infomus@ newsletter The latest issue can be found at the Promusa website |
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EFITA newsletter - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: To read this newsletter on the efita.net web site please go to: |
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Collective Action & Property Rights news: To read this newsletter please go to: www.capri.cgiar.org/caprinews |
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Events |
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Second issue of AWARD Science Alert In this issue, there is information on: a) Science courses b) Web resources c) Journals d) Conferences e) Funding opportunities The AWARD team welcomes your feedback and contributions to this newsletter. Please email contributions about the conferences, courses and other science capacity building opportunities you have participated in to Florence Sipalla at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. More information at: www.genderdiversity.cgiar.org; www.fellowsupdate.wordpress.com |
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The Online-Only Conference for the Life Science and Biotech Community BioConference Live is the first of its kind online-only event, focused on a wide array of scientific disciplines, bringing together researchers, thought leaders, and professionals from around the world. Making it easier and more cost-effective than ever before for the community to come together online, transcending time and distance. More information can be found at http://bioconferencelive.com/ |
November 17-19, 2009 |
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Global Crop Diversity Trust Award Scheme: Enhancing the Value of Crop Diversity: Third Call for Proposals This is the Third call under this Award Scheme. All interested parties are hereby invited to submit proposals for consideration by the Trust for an award in early 2010. This call is being made in coordination with the complementary call of the Generation Challenge Programme. The Genotyping Support Services (GSS) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) promotes the use of molecular markers to assess the potential value of germplasm by linking grantees with genotyping facilities they may not otherwise have access to. The call for proposals by GSS targets breeding programmes and/or germplasm collections in national agricultural research systems (NARS), academia, and civil society organisations in developing countries. The third call for proposals is open now, further information is available at http://www.generationcp.org/sp5/?da=09166016. |
15 December 2009 |
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Geographical Information Systems"A Practical Approach" Course, University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa For more information email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
23 - 25 November 2009 |
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Optima – Organization for the Phyto-taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area The next OPTIMA Meeting XII is to be held in Antalya (Turkey). For more information click the link below: http://www.optima-bot.org/publications/Newsletter/38/NEWS38.pdf#XIII |
22-26 March 2010 |
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Job opportunities and scolarships |
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Employment and scolarships on Collective Action & Property Rights can be found at www.capri.cgiar.org/caprinews |
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Contributors
This page acknowledges all contributors and sources of information used for this website. If you contributed and your name is not here please let us know as soon as possible.
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Crops |
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Banana
Arnaud, Elizabeth Barley
Alô, Fida Cassava
Cuervo, Maritza |
Chickpea
Amri, Ahmed Forage grasses
Cantrell, Juvy B. Forage legumes
Amri, Ahmed |
Maize
Costich, Denise Radish
Allender, Charlotte Rice
Alcantara, Adelaida Wheat
Amri, Ahmed |
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General procedures
Dulloo, Ehsan Safety duplication
Cantrell, Juvy B. Collecting
Alercia, Adriana |
Eastwood, Ruth J |
Maxted, Nigel |
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Decision support tool
Ademola, Ogundapo Genetic identity
Alercia, Adriana |
Quality management
Galsworthy, David Performance indicators
Dumet, Dominique Policies
Altoveros, Nestor Risk management
Dumet, Dominique |
Safe transfer of germplasm
Asaad, Siham Specialized collections
Arnaud, Elizabeth |
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Bolton, Michael |
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External reviewers |
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Borromeo, Teresita (rice) |
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Website development |
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Coordination and design
Claessens, Geert IT support
Claessens, Geert |
Editing and revision
Alemayehu, Selam |
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Spanish translation |
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Translation Alma McNab |
IT support
Claessens, Geert |
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Sources of information |
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CGN-The Netherlands, USDA-USA, IPK-Germany, EMBRAPA-Brasil, NBPGR-India, SARC-RIPP- Slovak Republic, IPGR-Bulgaria, DPI-Australia, CIAT, ICRAF, IFPRI, IITA, IRRI, ILRI, WARDA, CIMMYT, ICARDA, ICRISAT, CIP, UPLB-Philipines, GRCTPL-Australia and Bioversity International publications and websites |
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Acknowledgements |
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We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the wide range of experts who have spent so much of their valuable time and contributed significantly in different ways to the improvement of the content, layout and navigation of this website. Special thanks are extended to: Bioversity International staff, SGRP secretariat staff, Capacity Development and Education specialists of the CGIAR centres, GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST staff, SGRP exchange fellows and the participants of the International Training Course on Plant Genetic Resources and Genebank Management (Suwon, Republic of Korea, 7-18 September 2009). |
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Copyright policies of materials (including images) from contributing centres |
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CIMMYT: |
The image is property of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). All rights reserved. Responsibility for the image rests solely with CIMMYT. Permission for its use by [name of organization] is granted as follows: |
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IITA holds the copyright to its publications, images, and Web pages but encourages duplication of these materials for noncommercial purposes. Proper citation is required and modification of these materials is prohibited. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is hereby granted without fee and without a formal request provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and full citation on the first page. Copyright for components not owned by IITA must be honored and permission pursued with the owner of the information. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. IITA Contact details. |
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About this site
The Crop Genebank Knowledge Base is an initiative of the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). It was developed as part of the World Bank funded project “Collective Action for the Rehabilitation of Global Public Goods in the CGIAR Genetic Resources System, Phase 2 (GPG 2)”.
Our goal
We want to contribute to more efficient and effective ex situ conservation and use of crop genetic resources through facilitating easy access to the knowledge and best practices for genebank management of selected crops and to many aspects of general genebank management.
We therefore provide dynamic, up-to-date information on:
- Peer-reviewed best practices for germplasm conservation of a number of major crops, from registration through to distribution, including protocols, guidelines, manuals, as well as on general genebank procedures.
- Other aspects of management strategies such as decision support, maintenance of genetic identity, performance indicators, quality and risk management, safe transfer of germplasm, specialized collections.
- Training materials such as training modules, handbooks, videos, images and useful links.
Our primary objectives
- Provide a user-friendly online access to procedures, standards and practices for managing clonally propagated and seed crops held in genebanks.
- Compile and adapt best practices in the framework of a learning platform.
- Provide links to other related information and training resources.
- Implement a mechanism to update the existing best practices for crop management in genebanks and to develop best practices for additional crops.
- Build capacity of genebank curators and technicians.
Our target audience and beneficiaries
The primary users and beneficiaries of this website are genebank curators and technicians responsible for managing germplasm collections. Breeders and farmers will benefit from more efficient mechanisms to distribute and access germplasm. Universities will also benefit from this important collection of resource materials to train new researchers in agricultural biodiversity conservation.
Website development and maintenance
The Crop Genebank Knowledge Base website was developed within the framework of the World Bank funded project “Collective Action for the Rehabilitation of Global Public Goods in the CGIAR Genetic Resources System, Phase 2 (GPG2)”, which was implemented from January 2007 to June 2010 (SGRP 2010).
The crop best practices and relevant information for banana, barley, cassava, chickpea, forage grasses and legumes, maize, rice and wheat were collated and written by genebank experts of the CGIAR centres and national genebanks worldwide for their respective crops. Procedures and learning resources were compiled by the CGIAR centres and management strategies were contributed by different groups carrying out parallel activities of the GPG2. The web site was officially launched in December 2010.
More details about the CGKB development can be found in Jorge et al 2010 here.
The website is currently being translated into Spanish. New sources of information, sections and best practices are being developed, based mainly on voluntary contributions from interested users, on an ongoing basis. For a detailed list of all contributors, please click here.
You can contribute to this site, by sending us an email, by leaving a comment, or by discussing your best practices under development with colleagues using the wiki. Or check our blog for an update on the latest developments of the CGKB.
Promotional material
Below you can find some materials that were and are used for promoting the CGKB.
- CGKB Factsheet (0.2 MB)
- Collecting guidelines factsheet (0.1 MB) (spanish version)
- CGKB Poster (2.4 MB)
- CGKB general PowerPoint presentation (2.25 MB)
- Knowledge sharing on best practices for managing crop genebanks (PowerPoint presentation made at the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists XIIIth World Congress in Montpellier, France, 29 April 2010). (7 MB)
References and further reading
Jorge M A, Claessens G, Hanson J, Dulloo ME, Goldberg E, Thormann I, Alemayehu S, Gacheru E, Amri A, Benson E, Dumet D, Roux N, Rudebjer P, Sackville Hamilton R, Sanchez I, Sharma S, Taba S, Upadhyaya HD, van den Houwe I. 2010. Knowledge sharing on best practices for managing crop genebanks. Agricultural Information Worldwide 3:2 101-106. Available from: http://journals.sfu.ca/iaald/index.php/aginfo/article/view/179. Date accessed: 14 October 2011.
SGRP. 2010. Global Public Goods Project Phase 2 - Final Report. Systemwide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP). Bioversity International. Rome, Italy. Available here (2.5 MB).
Thormann I, Qiu Yang, Allender C, Bas N, Campbell G, Dulloo E, Ebert AW, Lohwasser U, Pandey C, Robertson LD, Spellman O. 2013. Development of best practices for ex situ conservation of radish germplasm in the context of the Crop Genebank Knowledge Base. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 60(4):1251-1262. DOI 10.1007/s10722-012-9916-5. http://www.springerlink.com/content/eg71r166jq524363/