European on-line National Inventories on ex situ
Plant Genetic Resources
A number of European countries have established national PGR inventories that are available on the web. These national inventories can be consulted here:
Austria - Bulgaria - Czech Republic - Estonia - France - Germany - Italy - Lithuania -
The Netherlands - Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden - Poland - Russian Federation - Slovenia - Spain
| Austria |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources in Austria consists of information on 11,230 accessions, representing about 300 species, maintained in 14 institutes. The material of the public organizations generally is freely available under the terms of a sMTA or a bilateral MTA.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.genbank.at |
Mr Wolfgang Kainz
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
Plant Genetic Resources
Wieningerstrasse 8
4021, Linz
Austria
Tel: (43) 50555 41231
Fax: (43) 50555 41119
Email: wolfgang.kainz@ages.at |
| Bulgaria |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources in Bulgaria consists of information on 88,317 accessions, representing about 1,348 species, maintained in 23 institutes. An estimated 25% of the accessions of the national inventory consists of wild crop relatives.
At present, 20,100 records for accessions under long-term storage conditions are available on the web (about 20% of considered national inventory).
On-line National Inventories URL: www.genbank.hit.bg |
Ms Siyka Stoyanova
Institute for Plant
Genetic Resources "K.Malkov"Str Drujba 2
4122, Sadovo, Plovdiv district
Bulgaria
Tel: (359-32) 629026
Fax: (359-32) 629026
Email: s_stoyanova@gbg.bg |
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| Czech Republic |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources of the Czech Republic consists of information on 49,464 accessions, representing about 1,136 species, maintained in 12 institutes. An estimated 9% of the accessions are wild crop relatives.
On-line National Inventories URL: http://genbank.vurv.cz/genetic/resources/ |
Ms Iva Faberová
Genebank Department RICP
Research Institute for Crop Production
Drnovska 507
161 06, Praha 6 - Ruzyne
Czech Republic
Tel: (420-2)233022478
Fax: (420-2)233022286(genebank)/ 233310636(institute)
Email: faberova@vurv.cz |
| Estonia |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources in Estonia consists of information on 1,500 accessions, representing about 40 species, maintained in 6 institutes. At present, 653 records for accessions under long-term storage conditions are available on the web.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.sordiaretus.ee/ |
Mr Vahur Kukk
Estonian National Committee on PGR
Linnumetsa 8-9
48309, Jõgeva
Estonia
Tel: (372) 5058224
Fax: (372) 7766902
Email: vahur.kukk@jogevamv.ee |
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| France |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources of France consists of information on about 60,000 accessions, representing about 168 species, maintained by 26 networks. An estimated 5% of the accessions are wild crop relatives.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.brg.prd.fr/index.php |
Mr Dominique Planchenault
Bureau des Ressources Génétiques (BRG)
BRG (BRG)
16 rue Claude Bernard
75231, Paris Cedex 05
France
Tel: (33) 144087261
Fax: (33) 144087263
Email: dominique.planchenault
@agroparistech.fr |
| Germany |
Contacts |
The online database of plant genetic resources in Germany (PGRDEU) is the national inventory on PGRFA and contains information about the ex situ collections of the most important German genebanks and other national ex situ collections.
The inventory comprises passport data for approximately 155,000 accession of more than 3,000 species in 11 holding institutions.
The information on the web site is updated at least once every year.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.genres.de/pgrdeu/ |
Mr Frank Begemann
Information and Coordination Centre for Biological Diversity (IBV)
Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
Deichmanns Aue 29
53179, Bonn
Germany
Tel: (49-228) 6845 3239
Fax: (49-228) 6845 3787
Email: frank.begemann@ble.de |
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| Italy |
Contacts |
The Italian National Inventory on PGR contains Information on 28.000 accessions representing 494 species conserved ex situ in 44 public and private Institutions. The interactive database is in constante updating through teh single curators. The described material is conserved in vivo (mainly woody species) or as seeds (herbaceous species). Approximately 50% of the accessions are of Italian origin and about 10% is considered wild crop relatives.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.rgv-politicheagricole-cra.it |
Mr Mario Izzo
Istituto Sperimentale
per la Frutticoltura
Via Fioranello, 52
00040, Ciampino
Aeroporto, Roma
Italy
Tel: (39) 0679348108
Fax: (39) 0679341630
Email: mizzo@isfrutticoltura.it |
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| Lithuania |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources of Lithuania consists of information on 3,500 accessions, representing about 45 species, maintained in 7 institutes. An estimated 10% of the accessions are wild crop relatives.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.lzi.lt/ |
Ms Ausra Lazauskiene
Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture
Akademija
5051, Kedainiai distr.
Lithuania
Tel: (370-57) 37789
Fax: (370-57) 37096
Email: ausra@lzi.lt |
| The Netherlands |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of The Netherlands currently consists the publicly accessible information of the Centre for Genetic Resources, The Netherlands (CGN). This organisation is the central Dutch genebank and maintaines about 25,000 accessions of 20 agricultural and horticultural crops. All material maintained by the CGN is freely available to bona fide users. The information on the web site is updated at least once every two months.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.cgn.wur.nl/UK/CGN+Plant+
Genetic+Resources |
Mr Theo J L van Hintum
Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands (CGN)
Wageningen University and Research Centre
P.O. Box 16
6700 AA, Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel: (31-317) 477078
Fax: (31-317) 423110
Email: theo.vanhintum@wur.nl |
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| Nordic Countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources of the 5 Nordic Countries consists of information on 30,000 accessions, representing about 400 species, maintained at the Nordic Gene Bank on behalf of the Nordic Countries. The National Inventory includes the documentation on the seed collection at Alnarp as well as vegetative genebank collections at distributed locations in the Nordic countries.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.nordgen.org/ngb/ |
Mr Dag Terje Endresen
NordGen
PO Box 41
230 53, Alnarp, Sweden
Tel: (46-40) 536654
Fax: (46-40) 536650
Email: dag.endresen@nordgen.org |
| Poland |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources of Poland consists of information on about 60,000 accessions, representing about 286 species, maintained at in 14 institutes. About 14,000 accessions are maintained in the 21 botanic gardens in Poland. An estimated 5% of the accessions are wild crop relatives (30% for the grasses collections).
On-line National Inventories URL: www.ihar.edu.pl/gene_bank |
Ms Zofia Bulinska-Radomska
Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR)
National Plant Genetic Resources Centre
Radzików
05870, Blonie
Poland
Tel: (48-22) 7254715
Fax: (48-22) 7254714/15
Email: z.bulinska@ihar.edu.pl |
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| Russian Federation |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources of the Russian Federation consists of information on about 320,000 accessions, representing about 2,532 species, maintained at the N.I.Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry. An estimated 1% of the accessions are wild crop relatives.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.vir.nw.ru/data/dbf.htm |
Mr Andrew Y. Omelchenko
N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR)
42, Bolshaya Morskaya str.
190000, St. Petersburg
Russian Federation
Tel: (7-812) 3144727
Fax: (7-812) 1178762
Email: a.omelchenko@vir.nw.ru |
| Slovenia |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources of Slovenia consists of information on about 3,100 accessions, representing about 40 species, maintained in 3 institutes. An estimated 30% of the accessions are wild crop relatives.
On-line National Inventories URL: www.kis.si/pls/kis/!kis.web |
Mr Vladimir Meglic
Crop and Seed Science Department
Agricultural Institute of Slovenia
Hacquetova 17
1000, Ljubljana
Slovenia Tel: (386-1) 2805180
Fax: (386-1) 2805255
Email: vladimir.meglic@kis.si |
| Spain |
Contacts |
The National Inventory of plant genetic resources of Spain consists of information on 71,330 accessions, representing about 3,800 species, maintained in 33 institutes. An estimated 10% of the accessions are wild crop relatives.
On-line National Inventories URL: wwwx.inia.es/webcrf/ |
Mrs Edurne Aguiriano
Centro de Recursos Fitogeneticos
CRF-INIA
Autovia A2 km.36 - Apdo. 1045
28800, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid
Spain
Tel: (34) 91 8819286 Ext14
Fax: (34) 91 8819287
Email: edurne@inia.es |
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