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.
Latest GROW Webinar
23 February 2023
Responsive Agriculture – What Do We Want From The Food System
Past 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.
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
16 December 2021
How Much Genetic Diversity Is Really Still Missing From Genebanks?
Multi-omics Data Integration
18 November 2021
SoyKB and KBCommons: Enabling Data Mining, Farming, and Harvesting in the Cloud
Loss of Biodiversity
Crop Genetic Erosion
Genebanks and Breeding Efforts
Squeezing the Good Stuff Out of the Vaults: Fields, Genomics, or Genebankomics?
Bridging the Gap Between Benefit Sharing and Open Access
Digital Sequence Information: A Looming Disaster or Hidden Opportunity for Positive Change?
Are Genebanks Serving Farmers?
Genebanks: What Is Their Use To Farmers?
Future of Genebanks
How Far Should The CGIAR Genebanks Dare To Go?
In Praise of Seed Morgues
Who Needs Seeds?
Seed Longevity
Seed Survival In Storage
International Collaboration
The Critical Role of International Collaborations to Improve Conservation and Utilization of Crop Collections
Emerging Technologies
CRISPR Crops: Plant Genome Editing Made Easy
Genebank Efficiency
Rethinking Genebank Management