ECPGR: Inventory Activities

Wheat Working Group

An inventory of activities carried out by our members and partners in Europe on genebank material.

Country: France

Name of Genebank/Institute	INRA, Genetic Resources Centre on small grains cereals, Clermont-Ferrand
Contact	François Balfourier
Crops	Bread wheat
Topics	Characterization: Exploiting the INRA genetic resource collection to introduce new diversity into the French elite germplasm
Information sources	Siregal database Breedwheat project Wheat inititiative

Country: Switzerland

Name of Genebank/Institute	Research Station Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil ACW, Research Departement in Arable Crop Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources
Contact	Beate Schierscher-Viret
Crops (and topics)	Wheat (breeding) Soyabean (breeding) Cereals and vegetative crops (characterization and regeneration) Barley, local Swiss varieties (characterization) Spelt (characterization) Wheat, local Swiss varieties (characterization)
Information sources	Wheat breeding Soya breeding Swiss national genebank (provides results of descriptions and evaluations – cereals are found under “Major crops”) National Plan of action for the conservation and sustainable use of cultivted plants

Country: United Kingdom

Name of Genebank/Institute	John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich
Contact	Mike Ambrose
Crops	Cereals
Topics	Germplasm collections; characterization of landraces, landrace selections and early cultivars
Information sources	Germplasm Resources Unit: BBSRC-supported National Facility Wheat Germplasm Resources [Poster] (1,3 MB) Growing Demonstrations of UK Cereal landraces, landrace selections and early cultivars from the BBSRC Small Grain Cereal Collections

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