The travel grants cover the cost of economy class airfare, registration to ISBR 2023, accommodation during the symposium, and daily expenses (calculated using the U.S. GAO per diem rates for St. Louis), as well as any visa fees required for entry into the United States. Local transportation from the St. Louis airport to the symposium will be included in the per diem.

Only scientists and government officials who are engaged in or support the biosafety regulatory system in any developing country are eligible to apply. Please send a brief CV, together with a short cover letter explaining your involvement in biosafety regulation in your country to ag@foodsystems.org with the subject heading ISBR Travel Grant Application.

AFSI's Crop Composition Database (CCDB) is a curated, open resource that provides data on the natural variability in composition (e.g., nutrients, anti-nutrients, and secondary metabolites) of agriculturally important, conventionally bred crops, including apple, canola, cotton, field corn, sweet corn, mustard, potato, rice, sorghum, soybean, strawberry, sugar beet, and sugarcane. With today's update to version 9.1, the CCDB now includes data for cassava and red pepper, along with an additional data set for sugar beet.