About EBS

The Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) is an open-source breeding software developed for crop breeding programs for poor farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. EBS aims to support all breeding activities through the following areas:

Core Breeding Workflows

The Core Breeding tools of the EBS support mainly three breeding workflows.

Trialing

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Advancing Nursery

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Crossing

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Concepts

Before diving into the how of using the EBS tools, it is good to understand key terms you will be encountering in the EBS first. We call them the EBS Concepts. In the succeeding pages, some EBS concepts are explained with a text description, while others are explained with diagrams and examples.

Logging In

To ensure the security and confidentiality of your breeding information, the EBS can only be accessed by users whose names and email addresses are already registered in the system. You may contact your organization’s system administrator if you have not yet registered or are unsure if your information is already in the system. Once your account is created and secured, you can now log in!

1. Open your web browser and go to the EBS website.

2. From the landing page, click Login.

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3. Make sure that you sign in using your EBS-registered email account. Refer to the dropdown menu below for the login options.

CIMMYTAD - For Microsoft accounts using CGIAR.org domain but specifically provided by CIMMYT

CGIARAD - For Microsoft accounts using CGIAR.org domain

Continue with Google - For Google accounts

For accounts other than Microsoft and Google, sign in using your email address and the password provided by your administrator.

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4. Wait until you are redirected to the EBS dashboard.

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Congratulations! You have successfully logged in to the EBS. Welcome to your new breeding informatics software. Let’s get you started and familiarized with navigating the system.