IITA Genetic Resources Center (@iitagenebank) 's Twitter Profile
IITA Genetic Resources Center

@iitagenebank

Our mission is to collect, conserve, characterize and provide plant genetic resources for crop improvement and global food security.

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ICRISAT Genebank (@genebankicrisat) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ICRISAT Genebank moves forward and ships second batch of 20,000 germplasm accessions of Sorghum (15,000) and Pearl millet (5000) to IITA Genetic Resources Center as part of its first-level safety duplication making it total to 40,000 ICRISAT The Crop Trust @RPGeneticGains IITA Arvind Kumar

<a href="/GenebankICRISAT/">ICRISAT Genebank</a> moves forward and ships second batch of 20,000 germplasm accessions of Sorghum (15,000) and Pearl millet (5000) to <a href="/iitagenebank/">IITA Genetic Resources Center</a> as part of its first-level safety duplication making it total to 40,000 <a href="/ICRISAT/">ICRISAT</a> <a href="/CropTrust/">The Crop Trust</a> @RPGeneticGains <a href="/IITA_CGIAR/">IITA</a> <a href="/arvind12211/">Arvind Kumar</a>
The Crop Trust (@croptrust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

💻WEBINAR: Using the best of Genesys database Join our team to learn more about Genesys features, including data filtering and visualization, similarity search, mapping, data downloading and more. 📅 Tuesday, 22 March 2022 🕐 13:00 UTC Register here 👉buff.ly/36cc7Wn

💻WEBINAR: Using the best of Genesys database

Join our team to learn more about Genesys features, including data filtering and visualization, similarity search, mapping, data downloading and more.

📅 Tuesday, 22 March 2022 
🕐 13:00 UTC 

Register here 👉buff.ly/36cc7Wn
Olakunle Sansa (@sansaolakunle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past (Norman Borlaug) #Cowpeas #Genebanks #diversity #resilience

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past (Norman Borlaug)
#Cowpeas
#Genebanks
#diversity 
#resilience
Esteban Rios (@foragebreeding) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thrilled to have AKIN-MADE joining our team in Summer'22 to work on cowpea breeding for heat tolerance (and other cool projects!) for his PhD program in UF/IFAS-PlantBreeding Thanks UF/IFAS-PlantBreeding and FFAR for the support 💰! Welcome, Habib!

Thrilled to have <a href="/bibzyCarter/">AKIN-MADE</a> joining our team in Summer'22 to work on cowpea breeding for heat tolerance (and other cool projects!) for his PhD program in <a href="/UFPlantbreeding/">UF/IFAS-PlantBreeding</a> 

Thanks <a href="/UFPlantbreeding/">UF/IFAS-PlantBreeding</a> and FFAR for the support 💰!

Welcome, Habib!
Oluwaseyi E. OLomitutu (@olomitutuseyi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am glad to announce our latest publication by Agronomy MDPI on "Assessing Intraspecific Variability and Diversity in African Yam Bean Landraces Using Agronomic Traits" 👇👇👇 mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/4… MDPI @Unibadan IARSAF-IITA IITA

Stefan Schmitz (@stefancroptrust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Seeds are the foundation of our future food and nutrition security, and a key for a world without hunger. Well-funded, well-maintained seed banks are critical to reducing the negative impact of the climate crisis on our agriculture globally. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Crop Trust (@croptrust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The window of opportunity to safeguard the world’s food supply is closing. The longer we leave it, the harder it will be to cope with climate shocks, price spikes and instability, writes our Executive Director Stefan Schmitz for The Independent. More 👉buff.ly/3MwHZVR

The window of opportunity to safeguard the world’s food supply is closing. 

The longer we leave it, the harder it will be to cope with climate shocks, price spikes and instability, writes our Executive Director <a href="/StefanCropTrust/">Stefan Schmitz</a> for <a href="/Independent/">The Independent</a>.

More 👉buff.ly/3MwHZVR
IITA Genetic Resources Center (@iitagenebank) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As part of the goals of The Crop Trust Seeds for Resilience project to foster exchange programs among International & national genebanks staff, IITA Genetic Resources Center host staff from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria & Zambia national genebank on a 5 days training workshop.

As part of the goals of <a href="/CropTrust/">The Crop Trust</a> Seeds for Resilience project to foster exchange programs among International &amp; national genebanks staff, <a href="/iitagenebank/">IITA Genetic Resources Center</a> host staff from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria &amp; Zambia national genebank on a 5 days training workshop.
The Crop Trust (@croptrust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Among the goals of the Seeds for Resilience project is to foster knowledge exchange among #genebanks. This week IITA Genetic Resources Center hosts staff from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria & Zambia national genebanks for a training workshop. More about the project👉bit.ly/3rPPpeE

Among the goals of the Seeds for Resilience project is to foster knowledge exchange among #genebanks. 

This week <a href="/iitagenebank/">IITA Genetic Resources Center</a> hosts staff from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria &amp; Zambia national genebanks for a training workshop.

More about the project👉bit.ly/3rPPpeE
The Crop Trust (@croptrust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How can crop breeding benefit the environment? 🌽 🌶️ 🌾 Crop breeders in #genebanks are developing climate-smart, nutritious and high-yielding varieties — vital to feeding a global population and enhancing livelihoods. Learn more via @CGIAR_EiB 👉buff.ly/3vcWOaf

How can crop breeding benefit the environment? 🌽 🌶️  🌾

Crop breeders in #genebanks are developing climate-smart, nutritious and high-yielding varieties — vital to feeding a global population and enhancing livelihoods.

Learn more via 
@CGIAR_EiB 👉buff.ly/3vcWOaf
CIMMYT (@cimmyt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Seed banks are the last line of defense against a threatening global food crisis ❗❗ Read how seed banks from the Arctic to Lebanon try to safeguard biodiversity👇 bit.ly/3L0OuzO

Niteroi SO (@niteroiso) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Germplasm Health is very important to agricultural research. "It is actually the frontier for access and departure in the sector" Prof. Michael Abberton. IITA Lava Kumar

Niteroi SO (@niteroiso) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Germplasm Health activity is a multi relational. It cuts across ( cross cutting ) all fields of agricultural research and serving multiple clients. IITA closing ceremony of the GH project .Lava Kumar

IITA (@iita_cgiar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Researchers identify adaptive traits with immense potential for yam improvement 'A collaboration between scientists at IITA & 16 other institutions has contributed to tools & insights that will enable #yam breeders to unlock the potential of greater yam.' iita.org/news-item/rese…

Researchers identify adaptive traits with immense potential for yam improvement
'A collaboration between scientists at IITA &amp; 16 other institutions has contributed to tools &amp; insights that will enable #yam breeders to unlock the potential of greater yam.' 
iita.org/news-item/rese…
Olakunle Sansa (@sansaolakunle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

""Plant genetic resources play crucial role in adaptation & mitigation strategies to ensuring sustainable food security in a changing climate". "IITA Genetic Resources Center works to ensure food crops are safeguarded in perpetuity" - Dr.Oyatomi Olaniyi Post-Doc, IITA-GRC.

""Plant genetic resources play crucial role in adaptation &amp; mitigation strategies to ensuring sustainable food security in a changing climate".
"<a href="/iitagenebank/">IITA Genetic Resources Center</a> works to ensure food crops are safeguarded in perpetuity" - <a href="/OlaniyiOyatomi/">Dr.Oyatomi Olaniyi</a>
Post-Doc, IITA-GRC.