Learn about the work of the international vegetables genebank.

Want to learn how to request genebank accessions through Genesys? Check out our newest tutorial

Learn about the work of Australia’s national pasture and forage genebank.

Data managers from the national genebanks of Ghana and Zambia spill the beans

It discussed the latest developments, and where we go from here

Get familiar with the latest user interface updates

The recording of the webinar Subsets and trait data in Genesys is available!

Staff from the Seeds for Resilience partner genebanks learned about Genesys during the GOAL workshop that took place in Nairobi, Kenya 9-13 May 2022

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Check out the latest data updates made during the first two quarters of 2022

What is Embedded Genesys and its newest features.

The Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute is the latest Genesys Data Provider.

The recording of the webinar “How to use Genesys” is now available.

Partner genebanks of the Crop Trust-led Seeds for Resilience project publish the first batches of data in Genesys.

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CGIAR genebanks marked the end of the Genebank Platform by updating data on more than half a million accessions on Genesys.
 

The Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew updates passport data in Genesys.

The diversity tree developed as part of the global conservation strategy for the conservation and use of eggplant genetic resources is now available in Genesys.

The World Agroforestry Centre and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have just jointly published six new descriptor lists.

Genesys welcomes the largest collection of pearl millet, sorghum, groundnut and pigeonpea in West and Central Africa.

A new release of Genesys Uploader 1.8 is available for download!

Genesys welcomes the national genebank of Ghana as a new data provider.

Continuing with its effort to include more national Genebanks, Genesys partners up with NAGRC-NARC, Nepal’s national genebank.

Margot Forde Germplasm Centre shares data on over 3000 accessions.

More data from the national genebank of Zambia, as promised.

Luigi Guarino reveals some curious patterns by creating an interesting mashup of georeferenced data retrieved from Genesys with datasets on deforestation and poverty.

Genesys welcomes the National Genebank of Zambia as a new data provider of sweet potato accession data.

Passport data for some of the most beloved Ecuadorian snacks is now available in Genesys!

Coffee producers, sellers, and addicts will be happy to hear that passport data on the coffee collection at the National Center for Agronomic Research (CNRA, Ivory Coast) is now available in Genesys.

A total of 100 new subsets were published in Genesys in 2021. The most recent additions are subsets from ICRISAT and ILRI genebanks.

The Similarity Search function allows you to explore potential duplicate accessions on Genesys. More...

Passport data for material in USDA National Plant Germplasm System is now up to date in Genesys. More…

The Overview screen allows for more details! Details...

ICRAF shares new subsets of marula (Sclerocarya birrea), a tree species that occurs naturally across a wide range of semi-arid areas in sub-Sahara Africa.

New subsets from ICRISAT genebank provide an insight into sorghum, proso millet and kodo millet diversity.

The server infrastructure required an urgent upgrade. Genesys services are operational.

USDA’s curated scientific name database provides a taxonomic backbone for Genesys, making searching easier and more productive.

Read the summary of user feedback to the 2020 survey. Thank you for participating!

Genesys update is complete. Thank you for your patience.

We finished the upgrade of the Genesys infrastructure. Thanks for your patience.

An updated version of Genesys Uploader tool is available for download.

The new release addresses issues with parsing numbers from Excel files, improved regular expression support and more.

Genesys is updated with the latest data from EURISCO. The update includes DOIs for material at IPK!

Work in genebanks across the world is impacted by restrictions put in place to contain the spread of the COVID-19 disease.

Requests for material continue to be logged and will be addressed when conditions allow.

Help us make Genesys better with your comments and suggestions!

Thank you for your feedback! The survey is now closed.

We addressed a few usability issues with the website and improved API performance for browsing material of PGRFA networks.

Accession records from EURISCO are updated, adding some 24,000 new records to Genesys.

Genesys upgrade is completed.

EMBRAPA uploaded their first batch of over 16,000 images to Genesys (e.g. peppers, squashes).

IRRI added some more images of their rice collection this week.

CIP and Bioversity share updated passport data for their entire collections.

IRRI genenebank published images for additional 12,000 accessions in their collection this week. This brings it to a total of 55,000 rice accessions with images on Genesys.