The Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) is a public consortium, with a legal personality that incorporates among its research groups the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), and the Universidad de Barcelona (UB), as well as other researchers hired by the CRAG or other institutions as ICREA, all of them devoted to the study of genomics and genetics of plants and farm animals.

CRAG is included in a Consolider project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation as a Consolider Center. It aims to be a centre of excellence, centred in Southern Europe but open to the surrounding regional areas, with an international strategy based on the attraction, maintenance and motivation of highly qualified and professional human resources. The Consolider Centre consists of 5 research groups: The CRAG departments of Molecular Genetics, Plant Genetics and Animal Genetics, the Universitat de Barcelona groups of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Isoprenoids and Natural Products, and the Universitat de Lleida and IRTA groups of Plant Breeding and Plant Biotechnology.