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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....
Recognition of the importance of plant genetic resources started in Germany at the end ofthe 19th century. Plant research and breeding began to develop in the 1920s. Formal structures of public institutions were founded,...
- Type: Case studies/success stories
- Conservation Sustainable use Germany National coordination Governance structure
What is Arca Net?
The diversity of traditional and endangered livestock breeds and cultivated plants is cared for, bred and marketed in different places and in very different institutions in Europe. This diversity can...
The Brtiish Pig Association manages conservation breeding plans for 10 native pig breeds. Each year all breeders are surveyed to record an accruate pictuer of the live population. In situ and ex-situ conservation plans...
In 2019 Norway published the first national strategy for conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources of animals, plants and forest trees. The overall goal is to secure the gene pool for future agriculture and...
- Type: Case studies/success stories
- Conservation Sustainable management Trees Livestock Crops
The goal of GenTree was to provide the European forestry sector with better knowledge, methods and tools for optimising the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources (FGR) in Europe in the context of...
- Type: Project
- Climate change Conservation Genomic data Genotyping Phenotyping data
Swiss National Information System for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
In this 4 min video ‘Saving European plant and food diversity: together, we are stronger!’, Marc Lateur tells a story about apples diversity, with a happy ending (Marc Lateur is the ECPGR National Coordinator from...
- Type: Multimedia
- Collections Conservation Crops Cultural heritage Ex situ Ex situ conservation Storytelling Belgium
The Global Seed Conservation Challenge is managed by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). It aims to:
Engage more botanic gardens to become involved in seed banking, working ‘outside the garden walls’...
- Type: Project
- Biodiversity Botanic garden Collections Conservation Ex situ Genebanks Seed Network
In addition to thousands of botanic gardens and arboreta, GardenSearch includes gene and seed banks, network organizations, and zoos. Whether you are looking for collaborators, botanical resources or expertise, or simply...
- Type: Database
- Collections Conservation Genebanks Ex situ conservation
PlantSearch is a database of living plant, seed and tissue collections held by botanic gardens and arboreta around the world.
It includes over 1.5 million collection records from more than 1,000 contributing...
- Type: Database
- Collections Botanic garden Crop Wild Relatives Seed Ex situ Conservation Biodiversity
