PhenoHarmonIs

The PhenoHarmonIs Workshop was held 9-13 May at CIRAD Montpellier. For more information, visit the CGIAR Ontologies Cop website.

The workshop included hands-on sessions focused on agronomic data management & ontologies. These were held on Tuesday 10 May and Thursday 12 May at the CGIAR System Management Office.

Ease of access to and comparison of reliable phenotypic and agronomic data will support research contributing to the optimization of crop production and the development of new plant derived products, and to respond to the increasing demand for food, feed and raw material. It is vital that pre-breeders, breeders, agronomists, crop modelers, climate-change scientists, share a common language to describe phenotypes and to interpret descriptions provided by farmers to describe the performance of their preferred varieties. Ontologies and metadata standards provide support for this and enable data interoperability and reuse. During this 5-day workshop, 83 scientists from various countries and disciplines shared their experience as data producers and users, discussed solutions proposed by the represented projects and tested some of the proposed tools.