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ECPGR Wheat Working Group
Chair: Gert Kleijer
Vice Chair: Iva Faberova
Upcoming events
Third meeting of the ECPGR Wheat Working Group, Piešťany, Slovakia, 15-17 May 2012.
[more info on the meeting]
Working Group operative documents
- Working Group Project Proposal for Phase VIII (Project proposal for capacity building for the conservation of precise genetic stocks)
[PDF] (27 KB) - Progress Report Phase VII (2006-2008) [PDF] (33 KB)
PUblications of interest
- Key access and utilization descriptors for wheat genetic resources
- Descriptors for Wheat (revised)
- Descriptors for Wheat and Aegilops
Background information
Following an ECPGR ad hoc meeting on wheat held in Paris, France, in May 1996, the ECPGR Working Group on Wheat was officially established by the ECPGR Steering Committee in July 1998. The Working Group met for the first time in Prague, Czech Republic, November 2001. The second meeting took place in September 2005 in La Rochelle, France.
Wild wheat (Erebuni, Armenia) Photo: © A.Avagyan
Wheat seeds (Photo: © A.Asdal)
Wheat field (Istria, Croatia) (Photo: © Z.Matotan)
