Hélène Bergès is Managing Director of the Plant Genomic Resources Center (CNRGV) – a national infrastructure centre, which is part of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) network.
Unique in Europe, the CNRGV is a biological resource centre dedicated to plant genomes – centralizing more than 20 million samples (duplicated in two copies) from 40 wild and cultivated species – and a research facility and service provider dedicated to the scientific community.
Read her interview here
30 May 2017 - IWGSC Reference Sequence v1.0 annotation now available at URGI
The first version of the reference sequence of the bread wheat variety Chinese Spring (IWGSC RefSeq v1.0) is now available with annotation of genes, non-coding RNAs and transposable elements at the IWGSC sequence repository hosted by URGI-INRA .
In January 2017, at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego (United States), the IWGSC presented Leadership Awards to Forrest Chumley , Rudi Appels , Beat Keller and to the Pseudomolecule Task Force (Martin Mascher, Frédéric Choulet and Gabriel Keeble-Gagnère).
- IWGSC Poster Poster updated June 2017
- IWGSC Reference Sequence v1.0 annotation now available at URGI The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium is pleased to announce that the first version of the reference sequence of the bread wheat va...
- IWGSC Newsletter – January to March 2017 Welcome to the IWGSC newsletter No1/2017
- Venturini presentation, Bristol, 5 April 2017 Luca Venturini, Earlham Institute and IWGSC Coordinating Committee member, presented an overview of the progress made in wheat annotation "From fr...
- PAG Asia Announcement The IWGSC will hold a workshop at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference Asia in Seoul, South Korea (29-31 May 2017) on Wednesday 31 May 2017 from...




















On 18 July 2014, the IWGSC published in the international journal Science a draft sequence of the bread wheat genome. The chromosome-based draft provides new insight into the structure, organization, and evolution of the large, complex genome of the world’s most widely grown cereal crop.