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Empowering maize breeders: IITA’s training on EBS new features leads the way

The Maize Improvement Program of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is one of the early adopters of the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) within CGIAR space, having successfully launched the EBS tool in April 2022. The tool offers a cloud-based platform helping users track and manage breeding experiments and data, leading to significant improvements in breeding processes.

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IRRI conducts Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) Training towards increasing its adoption in South Asia

The training aimed at increasing the uptake of EBS, promoting good data management practices, and enabling efficient data-driven breeding decisions.

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CGIAR announces new breeding data strategy and endorses single data platform

To boost the efficiency and sustainability of its data-driven breeding efforts, CGIAR has endorsed a new strategy ensuring all network partners use a single data system. The strategy also creates a new organizational unit to manage, develop, and maintain data management tools.

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East and Southern Africa partners learn modern breeding strategies and efficient data management

IRRI’s training focused on enhancing skills in experiment planning and management using EBS, digitization of data collection, ensuring high-quality data, and effective data analysis and interpretation.

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Building a platform for breeding IT across CGIAR

The Enterprise Breeding System is set to be the only CGIAR breeding data management system. Learn how the transition will take place.

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Development underway on EBS Milestone 6 functionalities

Developers are working on over a hundred new or improved functionalities in the August 2022 to January 2023 period, following a series of global meetings that distilled user requirements into a realistic blueprint for the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) Milestone 6 release.

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IITA and partners launch EBS-Maize Platform to modernize breeding programs

IITA, Excellence in Breeding (EiB), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and other partners launched the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) for maize breeding data management on 22 April.