ECPGR Vitis Working Group

Chair: Jesus Maria Ortiz email    Vice Chair: Edi Maletic email   

Upcoming events

Second meeting of the ECPGR Vitis Working Group, Siebeldingen, Germany, 18-20 September 2012.
[more info on the meeting]

Recent events

2011
The European Vitis Database improved
The  European Vitis Database (http://www.eu-vitis.de), maintained by the Julius Kuhn-Institute (JKI), Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof, Siebeldingen, Germany, has been adapted to the EURISCO format and an on line interactive uploading has been implemented. The database now includes 49 descriptors (EURISCO descriptors plus 14 Vitis specific descriptors and uploading modules for passport, characterization, SSR and  virus data. A photo gallery has also been implemented. The database has been developed as part of the EC-funded Gen Res project GrapeGen and with complementary ECPGR support.      

Previous years

Working Group operative documents

Other Working Group Documents and publications

Background information

In October 2001, the ECPGR Steering Committee agreed on the establishment of a Working Group on Vitis, as a result of a request submitted by the project partners of the EU-funded project on Vitis, which was terminated in February 2002. The objective is to strengthen European collaboration for the purpose of improving the conservation and sustainable use of Vitis genetic resources in Europe.

Very ancient and endangered variety White Heunisch (synonym is Gouais blanc), the direct parent of more than 80 offsprings - from Greece to France -, discovered by genetic fingerprinting (Photo: © E.Maul, JKI, Germany)
Table grape Philipp with a fancy berry shape (Photo: © E. Maul, JKI, Germany)

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