QTL Profiling Now Live on EBS

QTL profiling is now integrated into the EBS Platform's MDA module.

Teams across CGIAR research Centers continue to collaborate to enhance the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS), the breeding data management platform developed and maintained by CGIAR. This joint effort ensures that EBS evolves with user needs and provides crop-agnostic support to breeders across 20 crops worldwide.

EBS is actively developing Molecular Data Analysis (MDA) support to help breeders identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs), which are specific regions of the genome associated with desirable traits. As part of this development, a QTL profiling feature has been created in collaboration with Dr. John Damien Platten from IRRI, and consulting with experts for other crops across CGIAR Centers.

QTL profiling is an analytical method that uses a DNA fingerprint to develop a profile of which genes/QTLs are present (and absent) in new varieties. With this tool, crop breeders are able to connect genetic information to breeding outcomes more quickly and precisely.