EPGRIS - European Plant Genetic Resources Information Infra-Structure

Training

Find below the programme and reference material used for the training workshop jointly organized by RICP, ECP/GR and IPGRI , in Prague, Czech Republic, 9-13 September 2002

Report of the training workshop available [here]

Title:

Training workshop on PGR documentation:

Building a national ex situ PGR inventory

1. Workshop Programme

2. Worshop Agenda

3. Trainee forms:

   -  Alumnus form

   -  Training course evaluation form

4. List of downloadable IPGRI training materials

5. Discussion paper:

  -  Methodology for creating a national inventory, 2001

6. Descriptors:

   -  EURISCO Descriptors for uploading information from National Inventories to EURISCO

   -  FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors, December 2001

   -  OLD VERSION: FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors, 1998

7. Standard country codes, ISO 3166, extended list: updated 03/09/2002 and ISO 3166 Code list: background information

8. FAO/WIEWS Introduction materials on institutes codes

9. IPGRI/GRIN Taxonomic Nomenclature Checker

10. Electronic Seed Storage Behaviour Compendium

11. EPGRIS web site documents

12. List of IPGRI publications (printed copy) - information also available on the web site [here]

13. ECP/GR Report of a Network Coordinating Group on Cereals, July 2000 including a paper by Helmut Knupffer on Handling of characterisation and evaluation data in crop databases, pages 58-61

14.  Guidebook for Genetic Resources Documentation: a self-teaching approach to the understanding, analysis and development of genetic resources documentation, IPGRI, Rome, Italy (PDF file available for download and free copies available for the EPGRIS Focal Persons)

15.  Example of a crop specific descriptors like Allium

16.  CD with manuals of Apache, PhP, MySQL, ADODB and a demo Access database for the national inventory