News Archive

Highlights of meetings

20 Feb 2012

Highlights of the ad hoc Meeting of the Database Managers and First Meeting of the ECPGR Solanaceae Working Group, 14-17 February 2012, Menemen, Turkey.....

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First accessions formally included in the European Collection

21 Dec 2011

The Allium Working Group has recently notified a few countries about the Group's agreement on a first batch of garlic accessions to be proposed as European Accessions...

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New EURISCO website has been launched

30 Nov 2011

The New EURISCO website has been launched at http://eurisco.ecpgr.org/.

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Submission of “Plant Gene Access” project proposal

25 Nov 2011

The ECPGR Secretariat has submitted on 23 November 2011 the proposal “Access to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in Europe” (in short Plant Gene Access)...

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ECPGR Allium Working Group meeting

8 Nov 2011

Highlights of the Seventh meeting of the ECPGR Allium Working Group, Perea, Thessaloniki, Greece, 6-8 September 2011

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Descriptors for medicinal and aromatic plants

3 Nov 2011

The Working Group on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants has developed characterization/evaluation descriptor lists for their "priority species/genera"....

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Oregano project

12 Oct 2011

The project for “Conservation and characterization of oregano (Oreganum vulgare L.) wild populations in Europe” was completed by the ECPGR Working Group on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants....

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The European Vitis Database improved

21 Sep 2011

The European Vitis Database has been adapted to the EURISCO format and an online interactive uploading has been implemented...

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Joint ECPGR - NENA PGRN Workshop on the implementation of the International Treaty on PGRFA

23 Aug 2011

ECPGR and the Near East and North Africa Plant Genetic Resources Network (NENA PGRN) are organizing the joint Workshop on the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).

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Joint PGR Secure/ECPGR Workshop

12 Aug 2011

Conservation strategies for European crop wild relative and landrace diversity, 7-9 September 2011, Palanga, Lithuania

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ECPGR Barley Working Group meeting

17 May 2011

The seventh meeting of the ECPGR Barley Working Group took place on 10-12 May 2011 in Nicosia, Cyprus [more info]

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General Guidelines for cucurbit species

19 Apr 2011

The Working Group on Cucurbits finalized the “General guidelines for regeneration, processing and storage of cucurbit species”.

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Umbellifer crops Working Group

12 Apr 2011

Highlights of the first meeting

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Launch of the new website

7 Apr 2011

The new ECPGR Website was launched on 27 April 2011. Comments are welcome

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