--- title: 'Global Access to Plant Genetic Resources' url: 'https://www.agent-project.eu/' markdown: 'https://www.agent-project.eu/index.md' date: '2026-10-30' --- # Global Access to Plant Genetic Resources ### Please note: the AGENT project concluded its activities in April 2025. After five years of collaboration, the AGENT project has successfully ended. Focused on wheat and barley, AGENT transformed genebanks into dynamic, bio-digital resource centres by applying FAIR data principles and generating high-quality genomic and phenotypic data. The project developed precision collections and evaluated genetic diversity across environments, resulting in a publicly accessible diversity atlas and open data infrastructure to support future breeding for climate resilience. While the project has ended, its tools, data, and methods will continue to support sustainable agriculture and crop improvement. Watch interviews with members of the AGENT consortium to discover the project’s main results, achievements and impact: [![Videos](https://www.agent-project.eu/user/pages/01.home/01._intro/Thumbnail_all_videos.jpg)](https://www.agent-project.eu/outputs/interviews) AGENT aims to unlock the full potential of the biological material stored in gene banks around the globe by using FAIR international data standards and an open digital infrastructure for the management of plant genetic resources. Discover AGENT’s objectives in this short clip: ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/user/pages/01.home/03._stats/duration.svg)Duration 5 Years ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/user/pages/01.home/03._stats/funding.svg)Funding 7 Million € ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/user/pages/01.home/03._stats/partners.svg)18 Partners 15 Countries > “For over 100 years, gene banks have been preserving plant genetic resources for future generations. By establishing a cooperation network between them, AGENT will help to take stock of these invaluable collections and make them accessible for modern breeding programmes around the world.” > > ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/f/9/7/6/6/f97666c12c382c4eb764315ce176006e10906d51-stein.jpg) **Professor Nils Stein** > IPK Gatersleben, Germany > AGENT Project Coordinator AGENT contributes to the sustainable development goals no. 1, 2 and 15 of the United Nations: [![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/4/e/a/9/3/4ea93fb87306ca9d00fb90cbd7996fb8fd64b82b-1.jpg)](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg1) [![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/d/b/d/c/9/dbdc9b312926cf9ce8af555b0c13c41836652aca-2.jpg)](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg2) [![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/c/e/1/9/e/ce19e3310cc9284ae4c82e73ef6170ce6b47d00d-15.jpg)](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg15) [ 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database](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/webinar-announcement-sister-project-breedingvalue-presents-the-germinate-berry-database) [ ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/9/8/6/7/c/9867c51499082bae083e9113c916cbe7ce1e026d-news.jpg) ](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/agent-partners-at-the-6th-symposium-on-cereal-physiology-and-breeding) 07 Nov 2024 ### [AGENT partners at the 6th Symposium on Cereal Physiology and Breeding](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/agent-partners-at-the-6th-symposium-on-cereal-physiology-and-breeding) [ ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/9/8/6/7/c/9867c51499082bae083e9113c916cbe7ce1e026d-news.jpg) ](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/agent-coordinating-partner-ipk-participates-in-brief-policy-paper-for-digital-sequence-information) 02 Oct 2024 ### [AGENT coordinating partner IPK participates in brief policy paper for Digital Sequence Information](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/agent-coordinating-partner-ipk-participates-in-brief-policy-paper-for-digital-sequence-information) [ ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/3/d/d/4/f/3dd4f5e3896155b49fa8d02c23aa63b3669e8da3-social-square---drafts-1.png) ](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/agent-opens-its-data-portal-for-general-access) 04 Sep 2024 ### [AGENT opens its data portal for general access](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/agent-opens-its-data-portal-for-general-access) [ ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/0/1/7/8/9/01789c693a466d730fb0d110d9f6323205080a4c-pro-grace-symposium-workshop-2024.jpg) ](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/pro-grace-emphasis-policy-symposium-and-workshop-on-plant-genetic-resources-and-phenotyping) 25 Jun 2024 ### [PRO-GRACE/EMPHASIS policy symposium and workshop on plant genetic resources and phenotyping](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/pro-grace-emphasis-policy-symposium-and-workshop-on-plant-genetic-resources-and-phenotyping) [ 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UZH](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/get-to-know-agent-partner-uzh) [ ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/9/8/6/7/c/9867c51499082bae083e9113c916cbe7ce1e026d-news.jpg) ](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/agent-joint-workshop-with-increase) 10 Aug 2023 ### [AGENT joint workshop with INCREASE](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/agent-joint-workshop-with-increase) [ ![](https://www.agent-project.eu/images/5/2/9/b/8/529b8e1aa4a40f773f003c95a45c6e8931ed096c-p1400615.jpg) ](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/cultivating-diversity-agent-wheat-and-barley-accessions-on-display-during-a-farmers-field-day-in-the-tuscan-hills) 30 Jun 2023 ### [Cultivating diversity – AGENT wheat and barley accessions on display during a farmers’ field day in the Tuscan hills](https://www.agent-project.eu/news/cultivating-diversity-agent-wheat-and-barley-accessions-on-display-during-a-farmers-field-day-in-the-tuscan-hills) [ 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