What is digital sequence information’s role in agricultural research and benefit-sharing?

On the first day of COP16, the Alliance - together with the CGIAR Genebank Initiative and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) - hosted an official side event entitled 'Sealing the deal on DSI Access and Benefit Sharing: a critical review of COP 16’s options from the perspective of agricultural R&D' to shed light in the rapidly evolving role of digital sequence information on genetic resources in agricultural research and conservation, and to consider implications for the draft decision on DSI benefit sharing that COP16 was to adopt.