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1. ECPGR Agropyron Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/Agropyron.htm
The European Agropyron Database is maintained by the Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, Sadovo, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The database contains passport data of 56 accessions of 23 cultivars and 33 wild ecotypes. The structure of the database follows the principles of the FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors list. For further information about the development of the Agropyron database, please contact the database manager.
2. ECPGR Agrostis Database
http://www.ngb.se/Databases/ECP/Agrostis/entry.html
The European Central Agrostis database is maintained by the Nordic Gene Bank (NGB) - a regional genebank for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The Agrostis database is searchable on-line at the Internet server of the NGB. It contains passport data on 388 accessions of seven Agrostis taxa stored in ten European genebanks. The collections contain accessions from 25 countries or regions, 4 of them outside Europe, and include commercial varieties (95), local cultivates (8), wild or semi-wild material (221), breeding or research material (8) and material of unknown type (56). Seed requests should be sent directly to the holding institutes.
3. ECPGR Arrhenatherum Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/arrhenat.htm
The European Central Arrhenatherum Database is maintained by the Grassland Research Station at Zubrí, which holds the national grass collection in the Czech Republic. The database uses FoxPro software and contains passport data on 219 accessions of 3 taxa stored in 9 European genebanks. The collections contain accessions from 22 countries and include advanced cultivars (44), landraces (4), wild material (106) and material of unknown type (65). Seed requests should be sent to the holding institutions.
4. ECPGR Bromus Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/Bromus.htm
The European Central Bromus Database is maintained by the Institute for Agrobotany (ABI), Tápiószele, Hungary. The Institute performs a full genebank activity on field and vegetable crops, it is the centre of the national genebank programme and represents Hungary in a number of international fora in the area of plant genetic resources conservation. The Bromus database is searchable on-line at the Internet server of the NGB - a regional genebank for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and it consists of two files. The BROMSTRU.DOC file contains the information about the structure of the main database file and gives the explanations for the field names and some coded values. The real accession data are compiled in the EUBROMUS.DBF file. It contains passport data on 583 accessions of 46 Bromus taxa stored in 10 European genebanks (218 accessions belong to the Bromus inermis). The collections contain accessions from 24 countries or regions, 4 of them outside Europe, and includes commercial varieties and breeding or research materials (52), ecotypes or semi-wild material and material of unknown type (531). Seed requests should be sent directly to the holding institutes.
5. ECPGR Dactylis Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/dactylis.htm
The European Dactylis Database is maintained by the Botanical Garden of Plant Breeding & Acclimatization Institute (IHAR) which holds the national grass collection in Poland. This database contains passport data on 8700 accessions of 10 taxa stored in 23 European genebanks. The database includes cultivars and breeder's lines (587 accessions), primitive cultivars and landraces (149), natural and seminatural ecotypes (7789). Two percent of all accessions (i.e. 175) are unnamed and with unrecorded status. Seed requests should be sent to holding institutions.
6. ECPGR Festuca Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/festuca.htm
The European Festuca Database is maintained by the Botanical Garden of Plant Breeding & Acclimatization Institute (IHAR) which holds the national grass collection in Poland. The database contains passport data on 7364 accessions of 27 taxa stored in 23 European genebanks. The whole database includes: cultivars and breeder's lines (1036 accessions), primitive cultivars and landraces (39), natural and seminatural ecotypes (6100), unnamed accessions with unrecorded status (189). For taxonomy unification "Flora Europea" vol. 5 (Tutin et al., 1980) was accepted for European species nomenclature and "Poaceae USSR" (Tzvelev, 1976) for Asiatic species. Seed requests should be sent to holding institutions.
7. ECPGR Forage Grasses (Minor) Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/forage_grasses.htm
The European Database for Minor Forage Grasses is being developed by the Nordic Gene Bank, Alnarp, Sweden. For further information about the development of the Minor Forage Grasses database, please contact the database manager.
8. ECPGR Forage Legumes (Minor) Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/forage_legumes.htm
The European Database for Minor Forage Legumes is developed by the Institute for Agrobotany, Tápiószele, Hungary. This database contents the passport data of Astragalus, Anthyllis, Coronilla, Desmodium, Melilotus, Lotus, Onobrychis, Ornithopus, Physanthyllis, Tetragonolobus accessions, so the total accession number is 1090. The structure of the database follows the suggested FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors. For further information about the development of the Minor Forage Legumes database, please contact the database manager.
9. ECPGR Lathyrus Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/lathyrus.htm
The European Lathyrus Database has been maintained by the Laboratoire d'Ecologie Moléculaire (LEM), IBEAS, Université de Pau, France, since 1982. It was created under the initiative of ECPGR and consists mostly of passport data, following the ECPGR list. It includes the following species: Lathyrus cicera, L. heterophyllus, L. latifolius, L. sativus, L. sylvestris and L. tuberosus. Data have been obtained from Europe, North Africa, Ethiopia, Syria and India. Number of accessions is above 4500. The Lathyrus Database is on Pau University Internet location (http://wwwciuppa.univ-pau.fr) and can also be sent, on request, on floppy disk, Foxpro2 or Access version. Seeds can be requested from LEM, IBEAS or directly from the Institue holding the accession (list and address available on request).
10. ECPGR Lolium Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/lolium.htm
The European Central Lolium database is maintained by the Genetic Resources Unit at IGER. The Lolium database is available as a series of downloadable spreadsheets or is searchable on-line on the Internet server of IGER. It contains passport data on 9050 accessions of 15 Lolium taxa stored in 17 European genebanks. The collections contain accessions from 55 countries or regions, 10 of them outside Europe, and include advanced cultivars (2062), primitive cultivars (113), wild or semi-wild material (5171), breeding or research material (317), botanic garden samples (112) and material of unknown type (1275). Seed requests should be sent directly to the holding institutes.
11. ECPGR Lupinus Database
http://www.ihar.edu.pl/gene_bank/lupinus/
The genus Lupinus is distributed in two centers of origin in the Old and New World. New World Lupinus (over 200 species) have a wide range of distribution, small seeds and 2n=48. In the Mediterranean basin 12 lupin species have been described – with big seeds and different chromosome number. There are 19 European institutions (+ one in Australia and one in USA) holding lupin germplasm. More than 90% of all accessions are protected in 6 institutions. About 84% accessions belong to 4 lupin crops. The dominant species in an institution usually reflects the major breeding objectives of that country.
12. ECPGR Medicago (Annual) Database
http://www.juntaex.es/consejerias/aym/dgpifa/sia/r_genetico_medicago.htm
The European Central annual Medicago Database has been maintained by Servicio de Investigación y desarrollo Tecnológico since 1985. The database contains passport data of 2321 accessions representing the annual Medicago collections from 8 European contributors. The structure of the database follows the principles of the FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors list. The database includes cultivars and breeders' lines (243), primitive cultivars and landraces (17), natural and semi-natural ecotypes (1653).
13. ECPGR Medicago (Perennial) Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/Medicago.htm
The European perennial Medicago database is maintained by the ‘Groupe d’Etude et de Contrôle des Variétés et des Semences’ (GEVES). The GEVES coordinates the French national network on fodder crops genetic resources with the BRG (Genetic Resources Board), the INRA (National Research for Agronomy Institute) and the ACVF (Fodder crops Breeders Association). The Medicago database contains passport data on 2888 accessions of 32 taxa (1948 accessions for Medicago sativa) stored in 23 European genebanks. The whole database includes: cultivar and breeder’s lines (1497), primitive cultivars and landraces (505), natural and semi-natural ecotypes (474) and unrecorded status accessions (412). The database is accessible through a raw table, 'MEDICAGO.dbf,992 Ko'.
14. ECPGR Phalaris Database
http://www.ngb.se/Databases/ECP/Phalaris/entry.html
The European Central Phalaris database is maintained by the Nordic Gene Bank (NGB) - a regional genebank for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The Phalaris database is searchable on-line at the Internet server of the NGB. It contains passport data on 253 accessions of seven Phalaris taxa stored in nine European genebanks. The collections contain accessions from 18 countries or regions, 1 of them outside Europe, and include commercial varieties (15), local cultivates (1), wild or semi-wild material (49), breeding or research material (3) and material of unknown type (185). Seed requests should be sent directly to the holding institutes.
15. ECPGR Phleum Database
http://www.ngb.se/Databases/ECP/Phleum/entry.html
The European Central Phleum Database is maintained by the Nordic Gene Bank (NGB) - a regional genebank for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The Phleum database is searchable on-line at the Internet server of the NGB. It contains passport data on 4269 accessions of ten Phleum taxa stored in 19 European genebanks. The collections contain accessions from 34 countries or regions, 4 of them outside Europe, and includes commercial varieties (429), local cultivates (91), wild or semi-wild material (3612), breeding or research material (21) and material of unknown type (116). Seed requests should be sent directly to the holding institutes.
16. ECPGR Poa Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/poa.htm
The European Poa Database (EPDB) of ECPGR is maintained by IPK Genebank, External Branch "North" at Malchow/Poel, Germany. Passport data, based on the FAO/IPGRI EURISCO Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors list, document about 5000 accessions from 36 species. The EPDB uses the relational database management system (DBMS) Oracle and is searchable on-line. Additionally, the dataset can be downloaded as a Microsoft® Excel file.
17. ECPGR Trifolium alexandrinum and Trifolium resupinatum Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/trif_a_r.htm
The Israeli Gene Bank for Agricultural Crops (IGB) is responsible for the maintenance of the European Central Trifolium alexandrinum and Trifolium resupinatum Database, under the initiative of ECPGR. Both Trifolium species originated from the Eastern Mediterranean and are utilized for hay or pasture. Trifolium alexandrinum L. is also known as Berseem or Egyptian clover, and T. resupinatum as Persian clover. The database includes cultivars and wild accessions of the two species which are held by several European Gene Banks and research institutes.
18. ECPGR Trifolium pratense Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/trif_pra.htm
The European Central Trifolium pratense Database is maintained by the Institute for Agrobotany (ABI), Tápiószele, Hungary. The elaboration of this European catalogue started at the Federal Agricultural Research Station of Changins, Nyon, Switzerland, in 1984. After its two editions and final updating the database was transferred to the ABI in 1995. The Trifolium pratense database is searchable on-line at the Internet server of the Nordic Gene Bank, Alnarp, Sweden and it consists of three files. One of them, the TPSTRUCT.DOC file contains the information about the structure of the main database file and gives the explanations for the field names and some coded values. The TRIFINST.DBF file holds the names and addresses of the various institutions and donors mentioned as acronyms and FAO codes among the accession data. The real accession data are compiled in the TRIFPRAT.DBF file. It contains passport data of 2294 red clover accessions stored in 19 genebanks or other institutions of 15 European countries. The collections includes commercial varieties (906), breeder's lines (90), primitive or local cultivates (480), wild or semi-natural ecotypes (578) and material of unknown type (127). The duplicates within the database are marked with the same ECP number. Seed requests should be sent directly to the holding institutes.
19. ECPGR Trifolium repens Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/trif_rep.htm
The European Central Trifolium repens Database is maintained by the Genetic Resources Unit at IGER. The Trifolium repens database is both available as a downloadable spreadsheet and searchable on-line at the Internet server of IGER. It contains passport data on 1350 accessions of Trifolium repens stored in 14 European genebanks. The collections contain accessions from 33 countries or regions, 2 of them outside Europe, and include advanced cultivars (533), primitive cultivars (12), wild or semi-wild material (450), breeding or research material (51), botanic garden samples (6) and material of unknown type (298). Seed requests should be sent directly to the holding institutes.
20. ECPGR Trifolium subterraneum Database
http://www.juntaex.es/consejerias/aym/dgpifa/sia/r_genetico_Trifolium.htm
The European Central Trifolium subterraneum Database has been maintained by Servicio de Investigación y desarrollo Tecnológico since 1985. The database contains passport data of 4776 accessions representing the Trifolium subterraneum collections from 10 European contributors. The structure of the database follows the principles of the FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors list. The database includes cultivars and breeders' lines (118), primitive cultivars and landraces (45), natural and semi-natural ecotypes (4499).
21. ECPGR Trisetum Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/Trisetum.htm
The European Central Trisetum Database is maintained by the Grassland Research Station at Zubrí, which holds the national grass collection in the Czech Republic. The database uses FoxPro software and contains passport data on 72 accessions of 4 taxa stored in 8 European genebanks. The collections contain accessions from 8 countries and include advanced cultivars (18), wild material (43) and material of unknown type (11). Seed requests should be sent to the holding institutions.
22. ECPGR Vicia spp. Database
http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/databases/Crops/Vicia.htm
The European Database for Vicia spp. is being developed by the Istituto del Germoplasma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Bari, Italy. For further information about the development of the Vicia spp. database, please contact the database manager.
23. ECPGR Vigna Database
http://www.genbank.at/vigna
The European Vigna Database was established on the initiative of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) - Grain Legumes Working Group. It is maintained by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) in Linz, Austria. The database contains passport data representing the Vigna collections maintained in European genebanks. The structure of the database follows the principles of the FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors list.
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