Work on the Genesys Catalog of Phenotypic Datasets was made possible thanks to the kind contribution of the Federal Republic of Germany. We would like to thank all donors who supported this work through their contributions to the CGIAR Fund. Genesys is supported by CGIAR donors via the Genebank Platform. Then, there are those – breeders, researchers, and policymakers – who use Genesys to inform their own work. There are the genebanks, institutes and research centers who use Genesys to publish accession data on the portal. Genesys serves two distinct but connected groups of people. Instead of trawling through numerous separate databases, users find in Genesys a single entry-point to information about genebank accessions.
Genesys allows breeders and other genebank users to quickly search for – and request – crop samples located in over 450 institutes around the globe.
Genesys is a database which allows users to explore the world’s crop diversity conserved in genebanks through a single website.įirst launched in 2008, it contains about 4 million genebank accessions, which is around a half of the estimated total number in the world.
