In collaboration with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and other partners (India's Department of Biotechnology; the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals), GCP is organising the 4^th international workshop on Next-generation genomics and integrated breeding for crop improvement (NGGIBCI–2014), to be hosted by ICRISAT at Patancheru (India), from 19^th to 21^st February 2014.

In the words of workshop organiser, Rajeev Varshney, "We are pleased that the programme of this meeting is scientifically rich, with more than 150 scientists from 20 countries scheduled to attend the workshop."

GCP Director, Jean-Marcel Ribaut, will on 21^st February deliver the workshop's concluding lecture entitled Adoption of modern breeding tools in developing countries: challenges and opportunities. (Editorial addittion, 12^th March 2014: see the lecture in slides, or on video)

Workshop programme and more details are on the ICRISAT website, and the workshop will be on live telecast, based on Indian time indicated  on the workshop programme.

Relevant links:

• Comparative and applied genomics (Theme)
• Genomics Research Initiative
• Blogposts on crop genomics
• Agricultural Genomics Network on IBP
• Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP)