Occurrence dataset Registered October 14, 2022
INIA-CRF (CSIC) Plant genetic resources for agriculture and food active collection
Description
The mission of the CRF is to contribute to preserve and sustainably use of genetic diversity of native plant varieties and neglected old varieties. Thus, the CRF conserves and uses landraces, crop wild relatives and other species that are no-longer-used but which have genetic potential value for food and agriculture, making available the heritage of Spanish agrobiodiversity, which is key for Agrofood Innovation as well as for the fulfilment of the environmental objectives of sustainable development. The term Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) refers to this group of materials. One of the main CRF's functions is the Conservation and Characterization of an important part of this diversity such are the Active Collections of Winter Cereals (wheat, barley, rye, avena) and Grain Legumes (chickpea, lentils, vetch, common bean) and some industrial crops (sunflower, cotton). At July 2022 that collections were composed by 22626 accessions identified by passport data established following the FAO/Biodiversity Multicrop Passport Descriptors including: identification code in holding institution, taxonomic information and common and local name, data of the collection site, biological status, acquisition sources and storage condition. More information about this collection and a template to request this material are available at www.bancocrf.inia.es.
Purpose
The aim of this active seed collection is it use in research, breeding and training or direct use. The collection includes mainly local varieties or landraces of crops to be used on food and agriculture, wild relatives, mainly crop wild relatives and breeding material and obsolete commercial varieties. The most important group, with 71% of the total of more than 22,600 accessions includes local varieties collected in Spain. All this material is of current and potential interest as a source of genes that allow the design of new varieties to give response the needs of the new agricultural systems, both in the search for responses to climate change and to the new demands of users. The recovery of local varieties of interest is another of the uses of these materials.
Geographic scope
- Description
CRF's active collection included accessions collected in 102 different countries
- Bounding box
- Latitude
- From -90 to 90
- Longitude
- From -180 to 180
Temporal scope
- range
- January 01, 1901 - March 13, 2022
Taxonomic scope
- Description
CRF's active collections includes accessions belong to 417 different taxa
- Coverage
- Plantae
Methodology
- Sampling
Plant genetics resources acquisition procedure used at the CRF follow the international standards available at: https://www.fao.org/3/i3704e/i3704e.pdf
- Study extent
CRF's active collection included accessions collected in 102 different countries, most of them collected in Spain
- Quality control
Seed status regarding germination and viability is checking every ten year for most of the conserved species. Germination tests are performed according to international standards for germplasm banks.
- Method steps
The methodology is different depending on the type of material to be collected.
Prospecting to determine the collection areaContact with local agriculture staff and potential donors of local varietiesSchedule germplasm collecting mission to make collection at harvest time of after farmers harvestCollect seed of crop species from farmer's fields, stores or local marketOn-site collection of passport data, uses, agricultural cycles and other interesting informationUniquely identify each sample.Package the materials in optimal conditions until delivery to the genebank facilities.
Collecting cultivated varieties:
A part of the seeds conserved coming from regeneration/multiplication essays carried out at CRF facilities of other colaborating's institution. In these cases, seed are obtained after the field growing cycles most accurate for each species.Collection of wild species
List the species of interestApply, for each species and location, for the requested collection permitsLocate the distribution of these species on the basis of bibliographic information.Establish a work schedule according to the phenological cycles of the target species in order to identify the species and to collect at the optimum stage of seed maturation. To optimize this information, it is essential to contact with local botanists.Field seed collection of the species of interest at the optimum stage of maturity, avoiding elements in poor condition and contaminating seeds.Collect information of passport data, including, if possible, nearby plant communities.Uniquely identify each sample.Package the materials in optimal conditions until delivery to the genebank facilities.
A part of the seeds conserved coming from regeneration/multiplication essays carried out at CRF facilities of other colaborating's institution. In these cases, seed are obtained after the field growing cycles most accurate for each species.
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Additional info
Contacts
- Organization
- INIA, Centro Nacional de Recurso Fitogenéticos
- Position
- Staff Researcher
- Address
- Finca La Canaleja, Autovia A-2 km 36
- Roles
- Originator
Metadata author
Content provider
Administrative point of contact - Phone
- User ID
- Organization
- INIA-CSIC, Centro Nacional de Recurso Fitogenéticos
- Position
- Director
- Address
- Finca La Canaleja, Autovia A-2 km 36
- Roles
- Administrative point of contact
- Phone
- User ID
GBIF registration
- Registration date
- October 14, 2022
- Metadata last modified
- April 13, 2023
- Publication date
- April 13, 2023
- Hosted by
- GBIF-Spain
- Installation
- GBIF Spain IPT
- Endpoints
- Darwin Core Archive
- EML
- Preferred identifier
- 10.15470/xtpggq
- Alternative identifiers