IRRI is leading the CGIAR research program (CRP) on 'RICE' which has 5 flagship projects. The flagship 4 (FS4) is on “Global Rice Array (GRA)”. The GRA is a physical network of field laboratories and trial sites, which characterizes and monitors the environments, conducts crop/pathogen trials, and develops models to quantify and map the impact of abiotic/biotic factors on yield. Major international organizations participating in GRA are IRRI, CIAT (Columbia), Africa Rice Centre (Ivory Coast), JIRCAS (Japan) and CIRAD (France). The main goal of the GRA is to establish a multi-environment field network serving as a tool to design site-specific rice ideotypes adapted to future climates. The Array will feed crop modelers as end-users in order to generate better adapted varieties at a faster rate considering information on yield potential and effects of biotic/abiotic factors to yield variability by environment and varietal type. The specific objectives are to: -establish a Global Rice Array with equipped and well characterized field laboratories and trial sites -provide breeders information on yield potential and effect of biotic/abiotic factors to yield variability by environment and varietal type -generate genomics and phenomics data resources for multiple environments and climatic condition -accelerate gene and trait discovery in order to help optimize the use of genetic diversity under different climatic scenarios -deploy technologies adapted to specific environments based on knowledge of specific features of future rice production environments.Within this GRA, the Cluster of Activities (CoA) 1 (out of 5) aims at establishing the “world-wide field lab” for which an “antenna panel” is constituted as a set of rice genotypes that act as sensors for environmental changes. Seventy three rice genotypes for various traits or as indicators are nominated/contributed by different organizations to form the current “antenna panel”. This antenna panel will be grown at almost 30