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Future Seeds is a global innovation hub for the conservation and use of crop diversity set to become a driving force for innovation in agriculture. Its main purpose is building a ‘knowledge bank’, enabling the data-driven deployment of crop diversity through genomics, digital phenotyping, and information technologies. Juan Lucas Restrepo, director general of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), tells us about this gene bank of the future opened in march 2022.