Documents developed by the Working Group
Crop-specific standards
- Crop-specific genebank standards for orthodox seeds (agreed by the Forages WG, August 2023)
- Current minimum standards for regeneration (195,0 KB). (in: Report of the Tenth meeting of the ECPGR Forages Working Group, 28-29 April 2010, Poel, Germany, pp. 14-16)
- Description of the regeneration standards used for forage species (preferred/acceptable) (100,4 KB) Appendix IV, p.31 in Report of the Ninth Meeting, 23-25 October 2007, Piešťany, Slovakia
- Guidelines for the regeneration of accessions in seed collections of the main perennial forage grasses and legumes of temperate grasslands (168,7 KB)Appendix III, pp. 167-183 in Report of the Sixth Meeting, 6-8 March 1997, Beitostolen, Norway
Survey of storage conditions and status of safety-duplication per country
- Table updated 24 April 2012 (83,8 KB)
Publications of interest
- Devabhakthini, N., Kavka, M., Harpke, D., Himmelbach, A., Lohwasser, U., Willner, E. et al. (2026) 'Exploring the genetic diversity of the IPK Medicago germplasm collection using GBS', Plant Biology, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70170
- Bachmann-Pfabe, S., Kavka, M., Roschanski, A., Dehmer, K.J., Sampoux, J.P. and Willner, E. (2025) 'Phenotypic traits in natural perennial ryegrass populations and relations to climate conditions at sites of origins across Europe', Genetic Resources, 6(11), pp. 99–114. https://doi.org/10.46265/genresj.MDSO5816
- Galea-Gragera, F.A. and Llera Cid, F. (2025) 'Spain germplasm bank of annual forage legume seeds at the Scientific and Technological Research Center of Extremadura (CICYTEX)', in Al-Khayri, J.M. et al. (eds) Plant Gene Banks. Singapore: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4236-7_102-1
- Kavka, M., Brust, H., Brandt, C., Nishime, T.M.C., Willner, E., Wannicke, N. et al. (2025) 'Influence of cold atmospheric pressure plasma treatment on germination and plant biomass of Trifolium pratense L.', PLoS One, 20, p. e0332166. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332166
- Weise, S., Blattner, F.R., Börner, A., Dehmer, K.J., Grübe, M., Harpke, D. et al. (2025) 'The German Federal Ex Situ Genebank for Agricultural and Horticultural Crops – conservation, exploitation and steps towards a bio-digital resource centre', Genetic Resources, S2, pp. 91–105. https://doi.org/10.46265/genresj.GYDY5145
- Barth, S., Ng, C.K.Y., Moloney-Finn, L., Humphreys, J. and Alves, S. (2024) 'Differential biomass and nutrient accumulation of perennial ryegrass accessions under excess water treatment in field conditions during winter', Biologia Plantarum, 68, pp. 60–69. https://doi.org/10.32615/bp.2024.004
- Boller, B., Kopecky, D., Willner, E. and Schneider, M.K. (2024) 'Potential des Apenninschwingels und seiner Hybriden als Futterpflanzen für hohe Lagen', Agrarforschung Schweiz, 15, pp. 156–167. https://doi.org/10.34776/afs15-156
- Hu, Y., Dehmer, K.J., Willner, E., Turan, V. and Eichler-Löbermann, B. (2024) 'Assessment of inter- and intraspecific P efficiency in forage legumes as affected by recycling fertiliser', Agronomy, 14, p. 901. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14050901
- Kavka, M., Balles, A., Böhm, C., Dehmer, K.J., Fella, C., Rose, F. et al. (2024) 'Phenotypic screening of seed retention and histological analysis of the abscission zone in Festuca pratensis and Lolium perenne', BMC Plant Biology, 24, p. 577. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-024-05231-0
- Skøt, L., Nay, M.M., Grieder, C., Frey, L.A., Pégard, M., Öhlund, L. et al. (2024) 'Including marker x environment interactions improves genomic prediction in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.)', Frontiers in Plant Science, 15. doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1407609
- Blanco‐Pastor JL, Manel S, Barre P, Roschanski AM, Willner E, Dehmer KJ, Hegarty M, Muylle H, Ruttink T, Roldán‐Ruiz I, Ledauphin T, Escobar‐Gutiérrez A, Sampoux JP (2019) Pleistocene climate changes, and not agricultural spread, accounts for range expansion and admixture in the dominant grassland species Lolium perenne L. Journal of Biogeograpy 1-15.
Posters
- Blanco-Pastor JL, Manel S, Barre P, Dehmer K, Hegarty M, Muylle H, Roldán-Ruiz I, Roschanski AM, Ruttink T, Willner E, Sampoux JP. 2017. GrassLandscape. Genomic markers of climatic adaptation in perennial ryegrass (502,3 KB). Poster presented at the FACCE-JPI Valorisation workshop on climate held on 22 March 2017, Brussels, Belgium.
- Sampoux JP, Manel S, Hegarty MJ, Dehmer KJ, Willner E, Roldan-Ruiz I. 2015. Bridging landscape genomics and quantitative genetics for a regional adaptation of European grasslands to climate-change (1,2 MB). Project ‘GrassLandscape’ awarded by the 2014 FACCE-JPI ERA-NET+ call ‘Climate Smart Agriculture’. Poster presented at the conference Climate Smart Agriculture, 16-18 March 2015, Montpellier, France.
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