Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituti del Dipartimento di Scienze Bio-AgroAlimentari (CNR-DiSBA)

The Research Institutes of the National Research Council of Italy, coordinated by the Department of Bio-Agrifood Sciences (CNR-DiSBA), hold many important in vivo and ex-situ research collections of hundreds of different organisms (bacteria, fungi, nematodes, plant viruses, crop species, crop wild relatives, forest and fruit trees, etc.), aimed at studying and preserving their functional biodiversity, and assessing their response to biotic and abiotic environmental factors. These collections are part of the national network of biological research collections “BioMemory”, and have been fully digitized, standardized, and published within the Next Generation EU Project IR0000032 “ITINERIS - Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System” (PNRR - Mission 4), and integrated into the European Research Infrastructure "DiSSCo" (Distributed System of Scientific Collections).