The EVA Wheat and Barley network is the European extension of a successful national evaluation network in Germany (EVA-II), which has been operational since 2001 as a public-private partnership to evaluate wheat and barley accessions in German collections. As the biggest EVA network, EVA Wheat and Barley divides its activities into three geographic zones across Europe (Nordic, Central and South zones) and evaluates spring and winter barley, spring and winter wheat as well as durum wheat accessions, mostly for biotic stress responses in field evaluations.
The EVA Wheat and Barley network also contributes to the Horizon2020 project AGENT (Activated GEnebank NeTwork), evaluating accessions from AGENT partner genebanks in 2023 and 2024. The AGENT project aims at creating a network of actively cooperating European genebanks and transitioning them into active bio-digital resource centres. Using wheat and barley as example crops to implement “genebank genomics” approaches and tools for genebank data management and analysis, which will ultimately be applicable also to other crops. The interaction between AGENT and the EVA Wheat and Barley network ensures that AGENT genebank materials are showcased in the fields of external stakeholders: breeders and organic farmers.
AGENT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 862613.
January 2023 | ||
November 2022 The EVA Wheat and Barley network met for their first in-person project meeting on 17-18 November 2022 in Freising, Germany. More information can be found [here]. | ||
October 2021 The 2nd Annual project meeting of the Wheat and Barley network took place virtually on MS Teams on 21 October 2021 [more info]. | ||
May 2020 | ||
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