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By paying an annual sponsorship fee to the IWGSC seed companies and grower organizations enable the professional management of the consortium the organization of workshops and the devel- opment of communication materials to provide platforms for developing and advancing projects. Finally seed companies can support projects directly if they wish to accelerate the global achievement of the objectives. For example in 2011 Graminor and Biogemma provided the first funding support for the draft sequenc- ing of the 21 chromosomes while Bayer CropScience provided one million euros in 2014 to achieve the physi- cal maps. In return for their support seed companies and grower organizations are part of the coordinating committee and have pre-publication access to all data which can greatly accelerate the implementation of the sequence-based resources into their own breeding programs. Varietal improvements based on data from IWGSC projects are emerging already. For example CDC Fortitude a new durum wheat cultivar was developed by a team at the University of Saskatchewan Crop Development Centre in Canada in part using DNA markers that were identified from early access to the reference sequence of chromosome 3B. Moreover about a dozen genes related to controlling traits involved in the resistance to pathogens drought tol- erance and yield are being isolated currently using the reference sequence information of chromosome 3B. Ultimately growers will benefit from the work of the con- sortium by having access to new varieties faster and having access to those that are developed with technologies not yet accessible in wheat. Having an enabling tool such as a reference sequence will increase future investments in wheat breeding for the benefit of growers because com- panies will have a better mechanism for value capture. Its been a challenge to secure funding for sequencing the wheat genome. In contrast to other sequencing pro- jects the IWGSC has not been allocated a lump sum for the whole sequencing project but has had to work with project leaders all over the world to secure funding from national agencies and private companies. During the past 10 years the IWGSC has raised approxi- mately 50 million euros for physical mapping and sequenc- ing projects. About 11.5 million euros in funding is still needed to produce assemble and make available all remaining sequence data. Provided that funding is secured soon the IWGSC antici- pates that a high-quality genome sequence for bread wheat could be publicly available by 2018. Kellye Eversole