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The European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources (EURISCO) provides information about more than 2 million accessions of crop plants and their wild relatives, preserved ex situ by approximately 400 collections....
The Chatham House Dialogue comprised three separate sessions that aimed to build a vision of how genebanks can play a fuller and more effective role in helping agriculture meet future challenges. Special attention was...
- Type: Multimedia
- Conservation Food security Genebanks Agriculture
The Global Tree Assessment aims to assess the conservation status of every known tree species. Thirty-one percent of all the world’s trees are still lacking an assessment of extinction risk. The Global Tree Assessment...
- Type: Project
- Conservation Trees Extinction Global Threat Assessment
Many crop wild realtives (CWRs) are underrepresented in crop gene banks. With at least one-third of known plant species maintained in botanic garden living collections, the botanic garden community serves as an important...
- Type: Case studies/success stories
- Crops Genebanks Crop Wild Relatives Botanic garden Genetic research Ex situ Conservation
In situ landraces: best practice evidence-based database. A tool for promoting landrace conservation
This tool is for landrace maintainers or those considering the cultivation of landraces to diversify their crop production system. It provides access to evidence-based information on the benefits, opportunities and...
- Type: Database
- Landrace Added values Best practice In situ Conservation
The FORGER project provided the European forest sector with integrated knowledge and information resources for enhanced conservation and use of forest genetic resources (FGR) as part of sustainable forest management.
In this short video Colin Kelleher, the leader of the EUFORGEN working group on the conservation of forest genetic resources in the context of climate change, summarizes the main findings of the group's study. He...
- Type: Multimedia
- Decision support tool Conservation Climate change Genetic research
This video reflects some achievements of the pan-European collaboration on forest genetic resources since 1994. Two National Coordinators of EUFORGEN, Sven de Vries (Netherlands) and Jason Hubert (United Kingdom) share...
- Type: Multimedia
- Biodiversity Genetic conservation units Conservation Storytelling Pan European Collaboration
A multispecies integrative information system dedicated to plant and their fungi pests. It bridges genetic resources, phenotyping, genetic and genomic data, allowing researchers access to both genetic information and...
