The AKER programme is based on 7 complementary work packages which are dedicated to:

1. An efficient public-private partnership and a professional project management;
2. The characterization of genetic resources and their exploitation within elite germplasm;
3. High throughput sequencing and genotyping ; discovery and monitoring of new alleles;
4. The development of new phenotyping tools for medium or high throughput seed-stage and field evaluation;
5. The development of new and conventional breeding programmes, and a comparison of their efficiency;
6. The development of an integrated bioinformatics system for data storage and analysis;
7. A dissemination plan to communicate results to the different stakeholders.