Genebank joins network to boost conservation and use of agrobiodiversity

As part of DivSeek, Future Seeds - the Colombia-based genebank of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT - recently became one of the 11 ‘Pilot Hubs’ of the initiative and focuses on Latin American crops. The initiative is designed to empower genebank managers, researchers, breeders, and farmers to more effectively utilize genetic variation for research, accelerated crop improvement and sustainable production. It is intended to unite genebanks, geneticists, phenomics specialists, database engineers, and even culinary experts, to boost the information recorded for crop varieties conserved in genebanks around the world, even including taste and flavor for selected cases.