GROW Webinars
Genebank Resources on the Web (GROW) webinars are presented through a partnership between the Crop Trust and CGIAR to provide thought-provoking discussions within the genebank community.
The webinar series explores topics ranging from emerging technologies, operational efficiency, collecting to seed longevity, policy and use. GROW aims to tackle difficult questions and provoke discussion on important genebank-related details and themes.
Webinars are bi-monthly and pre-registration is required to attend.
24 August 2023
When is it good to be left out in the cold? The Global Plant Cryopreservation Initiative
28 June 2023
Don't Let Seed Dormancy be a Headache: How to Understand, Classify and Overcome It
27 April 2023
CGIAR Breeding - Who Benefits and How to Increase Those Benefits
23 February 2023
Responsive Agriculture-What Do We Want From The Food System
8 December 2022
How Can Genebanks Double the Diversity Available for Plant Breeding?
6 October 2022
What It Takes To Build an Eco-Efficient Genebank for the 21st Century: Experiences and Lessons Learned
Genebank Platform GROW Webinars
The following webinars were presented through the CGIAR Genebank Platform, which ran from 2017 to the end of 2021. It supported CGIAR Research Centers to fulfill their legal obligation to conserve and make available 750,000 seed samples of crops and trees on behalf of the global community under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The Platform supported day-to-day genebank operations, and activities to improve efficiency, enhance use and ensure compliance with international policy. This work was supported jointly by donor contributions to the CGIAR Fund and the Crop Trust Endowment Fund.
16 December 2021
How Much Genetic Diversity Is Really Still Missing From Genebanks?
18 November 2021
SoyKB and KBCommons: Enabling Data Mining, Farming, and Harvesting in the Cloud
21 October 2021
Crop Genetic Erosion
16 September 2021
Squeezing the Good Stuff Out of the Vaults: Fields, Genomics, or Genebankomics?
26 August 2021
Digital Sequence Information: A Looming Disaster or Hidden Opportunity for Positive Change?
15 July 2021
Genebanks: What Is Their Use To Farmers?
17 June 2021
How Far Should The CGIAR Genebanks Dare To Go?
20 May 2021
Who Needs Seeds?
15 April 2021
Seed Survival In Storage
18 March 2021
The Critical Role of International Collaborations to Improve Conservation and Utilization of Crop Collections
18 February 2021
CRISPR Crops: Plant Genome Editing Made Easy
21 January 2021
Rethinking Genebank Management