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Meeting highlights

14 May 2013

Fifth meeting of the ECPGR Grain Legumes Working Group, 7-8 May 2013, Novi Sad, Serbia

Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources - a major accomplishment

2 May 2013

New international standards to help genebanks worldwide conserve plant diversity in a more efficient and cost-effective manner were endorsed on Thursday April 18 by FAO's Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

The European Collection is growing!

2 May 2013

Following the recent offer of accessions to AEGIS by Germany and The Netherlands, the Working Groups have endorsed inclusion of 11,524 accessions that are now formally part of the European Collection...

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The European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) is a collaborative programme among most European countries aimed at ensuring the long-term conservation and facilitating the increased utilization of plant genetic resources in Europe...

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  • Wild Wheat in Erebuni State Reserve, Armenia (A.Avagyan©)

  • Okra  (A.Avagyan©)

  • Forages (S.Angelova©)

  • Potato varieties (R.Vogel©)

  • Kale collection field in Croatia (Z.Matotan©)

  • Beta vulgaris maritima (L.Frese©)

  • Vitis 'Philipp' (E.Maul©)

  • Ancient endangered variety of Vitis 'Heunisch weiss'  (E.Maul©)

  • Young Lettuce plants (R.van Treuren©)

  • Radishes (A.Asdal©)

  • Wheat seeds (A.Asdal©)

  • Beta maritima, Galway Bay, Ireland (D.Grogan©)

  • Tomato varieties (W.Palme©)

  • Transplanting plantlets (V.Miccolis©)

  • Onion field (V.Miccolis©)

  • Allium sativum L. (V.Miccolis©)

  • Borago officinalis L. flowering stage (V.Miccolis©)

  • Wild Beckmannia erucaeformis (U.Harelik©)

  • Solanaceae (L.Maggioni©)

  • Malus sieboldii (L.Maggioni©)

  • Apple 'Transparent Blanche' (A. Asdal©)

  • Brassica hilarionis (L.Maggioni©)

  • Trifolium incarnatum  (Y. Guteva©)

  • Carrots (W.Palme©)

  • Regeneration Barley accessions IPK (H. Knüpffer©)

  • Barley in the field (H. Knüpffer©)

  • Forage harmony in nature (A. Inail©)

  • Walnut (A. Avagyan©)

  • Lactuca saligna, Israel (A. Beharav©)

  • Digitalis purpurea (G. Vörösváry©)

  • Barley field in Val Parma Italy (V. Terzi©)

  • Apple variety 'Jubilar' (U. Harelik©)

  • Forage plants in Rhodopi mountains, Bulgaria (S. Angelova©)

  • Grass species (U. Andersen (Aarhus University)©)

  • Colza (Brassica napus L.) Torrimpietra, Rome, Italy (Paul Bordoni, PAR©)

  • wild sea beet growing amongst other crop wild relatives (B. Ford-Lloyd©)

  • wild emmer by the lake of Galilee, Israel (H. Sela©)

  • Wild Brassica, Normandie (L. Maggioni©)

  • Lathyrus sativus, Ukraine (S. Sylenko©)

A European Genebank Integrated System (AEGIS)
The European Genetic Resources Search Catalogue (EURISCO)
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