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GRIN-Global training at CIMMYT


August 22, 2014

Source: CIMMYT Blog
By Bibiana Espinosa/CIMMYT

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Photo: Xochiquetzal Fonseca/CIMMYT

The Germplasm Resource Information Network-Global (known as GRIN-Global) was created to provide the world’s crop gene banks with a powerful, flexible, easy-to-use global plant genetic resource information management system.

GRIN-Global is the platform for an efficient and effective global network of gene banks to permanently safeguard plant genetic resources vital to global food security, and to encourage the use of these resources by researchers, breeders and farmer-producers. By improving the capability of gene banks to provide data to a global accession-level information system, it is possible to more accurately assess the state of plant genetic resources and to identify priority global needs for plant genetic resource conservation.

The GRIN-Global project created a scalable version of the network used by the United States Department of Agriculture/ Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS) National Plant Germplasm System. The GRINGlobal database platform was developed jointly by USDA/ARS, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and Bioversity International. Since 2010 CIMMYT’s Wellhausen- Anderson Plant Genetic Resources Center has worked to implement GRIN-Global to simplify the management of its collection of more than 180,000 accessions of maize and wheat genetic resources.

GRIN-Global has a web application that has allowed CIMMYT gene bank users (breeders, students and researchers) to search accessions and request seed from the website (http://mgb.cimmyt.org/gringlobal/ search.aspx and http://wgb.cimmyt. org/gringlobal/search.aspx). CIMMYT’s gene bank was the first outside the United States to fully use GRIN-Global and CIMMYT was the first CGIAR Center to promote and implement GRIN-Global in its daily activities. From 4-8 August CIMMYT and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) staff members were trained to use GRIN-Global. The facilitator was Marty Reisinger; Bibiana Espinosa provided translations. Espinosa is responsible for the implementation of the GRINGlobal program at CIMMYT.



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Published: August 25, 2014

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