Developing countries must benefit from the tremendous advances in the science of genomics, marker assisted breeding, bioinformatics, as well as from new cellular and molecular tools and methodologies for addressing the need to strengthen crop development and adaptation. Valuable assistance to developing country programmes in plant breeding and crop improvement could come from technology partnerships to provide methodologies, shared laboratory facilities, and guidance for finding solutions to thematic constraints like abiotic and biotic stresses, product quality, or human nutritional and health needs. There is no systematic global effort to facilitate such technology partnership assistance.

GIPB will promote new information and knowledge processes that can enhance networking and partnership, and accelerate the provision of technologies in the form of tools, methodologies, know-how and facilities to finding genetic solutions to crop productivity constraints in developing countries.

Tools, methodologies, know-how and facilities
Documents
Expert consultation
Networking
Databases
Etc.

Tools and strategies to finding genetic solutions to crop productivity constraints
Online protocols, documents and materials
Online analytical tools (mapping, marker searching, etc)
Expert consultation via web media
Network multiple focal points to input information
Web databases of available genetic resources
Web databases of available breeding tools
Etc.