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This project will develop and deploy a sustainable web-based Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) as a one-stop-shop for information, analytical tools and related services to design and efficiently conduct molecular-assisted breeding experiments. Such a platform will enable breeding programmes in the public and private sector to accelerate variety development for developing countries using marker technologies for various breeding purposes, such as major gene or transgene introgression, gene pyramiding and complex marker-assisted recurrent selection (MARS), and in the near future, genome-wide marker-assisted selection (GWMAS). The platform will also deliver support services to guide and train breeders from national agricultural research systems in accessing and using marker technologies. Critical for the adoption of modern breeding technologies in developing countries will be supporting communities of practice on molecular breeding for the most important food security crops, developing local infrastructure to improve plant phenotyping, and appropriate and targeted capacity building. Through these efforts, the platform will be part of a global strategy on food security and poverty alleviation.

News and Announcements

• Annual Technical Update Reports July 2010
• 3rd International Conference on Plant Molecular Breeding

  Publications and Other Resources

• Yunbi Xu - Molecular Plant Breeding
• Jono Bacon - The Art of Community
• J-M Ribaut, MC de Vicente and X Delannay - Molecular breeding in developing countries: challenges and perspectives

Project Management and Administration

• Brief Overview - IBP Components
• Integrated Breeding Platform--Proposal
• Simac Report - IBP Launch Meeting, Hyderabad, India, February 2010
• IBP Re-branded
• IBP Welcomes Key Staff
• IBP Launch February 2010 - A Platform on the Move
• IBP Project Commencement - Press Release, September 2009
• Project Management and Partners
• Objective 1.1 Establish and Manage the IBP

  Information System

• Outline of Molecular Breeding Workflows
• How the IBP can support Information Management for Molecular Breeding
• Timeline for the development of informatics tools for the IBP
• Trait Dictionaries for Fieldbook Development
• Bar coding in a breeding program or laboratory
• Objective 2.1 Existing tools for data management and breeding logistics
• Objective 2.2 Analysis, prediction and simulation tools for MAB
• Objective 2.3 Information network and configurable workflow system

  Services

• Objective 3.1 Breeding services: Genetic Resources, Marker and Trait Services
• Genotyping Services Presentation
• Objective 3.2 Support services