From Bean to Browser: Genesys for coffee collections
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Our latest webinar on how Genesys supports coffee genebanks with data sharing and practical tools.
On Thursday 26 June 2025, we held a webinar titled From Bean to Browser: Genesys for Coffee Collections, building on the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Workshop held in Côte d’Ivoire from 5–7 May 2025. The workshop was organized by the Crop Trust in collaboration with the International Coffee Organization (ICO), the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA) of Côte d'Ivoire, funded by the Federal Republic of Germany (BLE).
Information on many of the coffee collections is not yet in Genesys. The workshop demonstrated not only how simple it is to share data, but also what is possible once the data is there.
Joining the webinar were twenty participants from the genebanks of Meise Botanic Garden (Belgium), Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (IAC – Brazil), Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA – Côte d’Ivoire), International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT – Colombia), National Gene Bank (NGB – Egypt), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT – India), Genetic Resources Research Institute (GeRRI – Kenya), Coffee Research Institute (CRI – Kenya), Banque de gènes et de semences / Institut d’Économie Rurale (IER – Mali), National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB – Nigeria), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI – Philippines), World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg – Taiwan), and National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO – Uganda).
The webinar started with an introduction to Genesys and its core functionalities, followed by an exploration of the benefits of publishing genebank data online through Genesys. We then walked through the process of submitting and updating passport data on the platform, before diving into a case study on finding drought tolerant alfalfa from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Finally, we demonstrated how to navigate characterization, evaluation, and passport datasets relevant to coffee collections.
Watch the recording (English version) here, and access the slides here.
Stay tuned for the French version webinar later this year!