Inventorying wheat on-farm diversity
Activity Coordinator: Lorenzo Raggi
The INWHEATORY Activity, submitted by the On-farm Conservation and Management, and the Wheat Working Groups for funding under the Sixth Call of the Phase X ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme, was selected by the Executive Committee and approved in December 2022.
- Activity proposal (620,9 KB)
Implementation
September 2025
The final Activity report is available here
May 2025
The Activity was completed, and the final report is in preparation. Records of 616 wheat landraces cultivation sites were inventoried, representing 303 different landraces. Greece, North Macedonia, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany provided the highest number of records (181, 104, 91, 89 and 88, respectively). Case studies on 42 different wheat landraces from 11 European countries were also prepared, contributing to a Guide for good practices for on-farm conservation and sustainable use of wheat landraces. In addition, 25 detailed wheat landrace cultivation descriptions were collected to be added to the ECPGR ‘In situ landraces: best practice evidence-based database landrace database’.
January 2024
The INWHEATORY Activity started with an agreement among the partners on the use of appropriate templates to collect data recording in situ occurrences of wheat landraces and case studies of successful examples of wheat landrace cultivation and use.
Polish landraces of spelt (Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta). Photo credit: IHAR, Poland