Plant Genetic Resources

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  Genebank Peer Reviews: A powerful tool to improve genebank quality and promote collaboration

  Theo van Hintum, Sharon Balding, Gergana Desheva, John Dickie, María José Díez, Luis Guasch, Pavol Hauptvogel, Vojtěch Holubec, Dagmar Janovská, Ulrike Lohwasser, Isaura Martín, Ludmila Papoušková, Beate Schierscher-Viret, Lise Lykke Steffensen, Katya Uzundzhalieva, Patrizia Vaccino, José Vicente Valcárcel

  115-121

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  Phenotypic traits in natural perennial ryegrass populations and relations to climate conditions at sites of origins across Europe

  Silvia Bachmann-Pfabe, Mareike Kavka, Anna Roschanski, Klaus J. Dehmer, Jean-Paul Sampoux, Evelin Willner

  99-114

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  Editorial: Ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources in Europe – A journey through history, mission, challenges and future opportunities

  Filippo Guzzon, Sandra Goritschnig, Nora Capozio, Lorenzo Maggioni

  1-5

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  Morphological and biochemical characterization of Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata A. Braun) germplasm grown in Central Ethiopia

  Ethiopian Mustard Germplasm Characterization

  Ermias Estifanos, Tileye Feyissa, Kassahun Tesfaye, Alemu Lencho, Christina Eynck

  41-56

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  A significantly enhanced role for plant genetic resource centres in linking in situ and ex situ conservation to aid user germplasm access

  Nigel Maxted, Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon, Catherine Hazel Aguilar, Ana Maria Barata, Béla Bartha, Riccardo Bocci, Domenico De Paola, Heli S. Fitzgerald, Louis John Fresta, Pietro Fusani, Giovanni Giuliano, Filippo Guzzon, Philipp Holzherr, Vojtěch Holubec, José María Iriondo Alegría, Juozas Labokas, Lorenzo Maggioni, Joana Magos Brehm, Anna Palmé, Jade Phillips, Jaime Prohens, Lorenzo Raggi, Parthenopi Ralli, Dainis Rungis, Karuine Sarikyan, Jelka Šuštar-Vozlič, Imke Thormann, Goran Zdunić

  203-223

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  Safeguarding, evaluating and valorizing fruit tree genetic resources in Belgium: Insights from nearly half a century of unsprayed orchard management

  Baptiste Dumont, Alain Rondia, Laurent Delpierre, Pascal Dupont, Thibaut Donis, Vincent Ferrier, Julian Reyser, Alexis Jorion, Dominique Mingeot, Patrick Houben, Yves Pennetreau, René Stiévenard, Jean-Baptiste Rey, Guillaume Bruneaux, Alain Grifnée, Benjamin Cerisier, Eva Velghe, Emilie Mulot, Frédéric Fauche, Christophe Poirson, Françoise Van Roozendael, Marc Lateur

  185-202

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  History and future of industrial crop accessions preserved by CREA-CI in Bologna and Rovigo, Italy

  Ilaria Alberti, Manuela Bagatta, Andrea Del Gatto, Massimo Montanari, Daniela Pacifico, Andrea Carboni

  162-184

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  The French INRAE Biological Resource Center for pome fruits and roses: Plant and DNA collections of traditional and research genetic resources

  Laurence Feugey, Annie Chastellier, Caroline Denancé, Charles-Eric Durel, Fabrice Foucher, Rémi Gardet, Agnès Grapin, Kévin Guérif, Arnaud Guyader, Laurence Hibrand-Saint Oyant, Amélie Lamothe-Henri, François Laurens, Arnaud Lemarquand, Jocelyn Maquaire, Céline Moulévrier, Hélène Muranty, Marie-Hélène Simard, Tatiana Thouroude, Alix Pernet

  135-146

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  Community seedbanks in Europe: their role between ex situ and on-farm conservation

  Riccardo Bocci, Béla Bartha, Helene Maierhofer, Michaela Arndorfer, Michele Salvan

  147-161

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  Strengthening European research cooperation on plant genetic resources conservation and use

  Sandra Goritschnig, Stephan Weise, Filippo Guzzon, Lorenzo Maggioni, Theo van Hintum, Lise Lykke Steffensen, Nils Stein, Giovanni Giuliano

  119-134

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  The INRAE Prairies genebank for ex situ conservation of forage and turf species in France

  Jean-Paul Sampoux, Philippe Barre, Jean-Louis Durand, Marc Ghesquière, Bernadette Julier, Marie Pégard, Aurélia Priet

  106-118

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  The German Federal Ex Situ Genebank for Agricultural and Horticultural Crops – Conservation, exploitation and steps towards a bio-digital resource centre

  Stephan Weise, Frank R. Blattner, Andreas Börner, Klaus J. Dehmer , Marion Grübe , Dörte Harpke , Ulrike Lohwasser , Markus Oppermann , Nils Stein , Evelin Willner , Manuela Nagel

  91-105

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  Overview of germplasm collecting activities for plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in Sudan from 2002 to 2022

  Ibrahim Mohamed El Tahir, Ali Zakaria Babiker, Elsadig Ahmed Abdalla, Awadelkarim Alam Elhuda Ahmed, Mashaer Obaed Yousif Goda, Magdi Ahmed Mohamed Elgabri

  24-40

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  Organization of plant Biological Resource Centers for research in France: History, evolution and current status

  Valerie Bergheaud, Jean-Marc Audergon, Arnaud Bellec, Anne Delaunay, Jérôme Duminil, Stéphane Dussert, Florence Esnault, Emmanuel Geoffriau, Brigitte Gouesnard, Christophe Jenny, Alain Label , Philippe Lashermes , Najate Maghnaoui, Cécile Marchal, Franciane Nuissier, Nilda Paulo-de-la-Réberdiere, Aurélia Priet, Valérie Riecau, Paule Térès, Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon

  78-90

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  Survey on threatened medicinal plants diversity of Northwestern Syria

  Munzer Aldarvish, Anas Al Kaddour, Akram Bourgol, Yasser Ramazan, Yousef Hallak, Stephen Cavers , Joan Cottrell

  14-23

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  The Versailles Arabidopsis Stock Center (VASC): original genetic resources exploiting both induced and natural diversity to investigate gene functions and analyze the impact of variation on plant biology

  Anthony Ricou, Carine Géry, Christine Horlow, Olivier Loudet, Christine Camilleri

  70-77

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  VIR: from a small Bureau in the Russian Empire to the present-day National Center for Plant Genetic Resources

  Igor G Loskutov, Yulia V Ukhatova, Elena K Khlestkina

  58-69

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  The Svalbard Global Seed Vault – conserving plant genetic resources for European and global food security

  Åsmund Asdal

  49-57

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  Assessment of phenotypic diversity of Ñuña, a local common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) from the northern Andes in Peru

  Angel Esteban Santa Cruz-Padilla, Jorge Luis Vásquez-Orrillo, Ricardo Manuel Bardales-Lozano, Hipolito Murga-Orrillo

  1-13

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  The INRAE Biological Resource Center ‘BrACySol’: a French centre of valuable Brassica, Allium and Solanum genetic resources for breeding

  Florence Esnault, Marie-Pierre Cann, Jean-Eric Chauvin, Anne-Marie Chèvre, Marie-Ange Dantec, Stéphane Doré, Pascal Glory, Marie-Claire Kerlan, Dominique Kermarrec, Anne Laperche, Lise-Anna Le Ven, Maria Manzanares-Dauleux, Roland Pellé, Jocelyne Porhel, Julien Quéran, Vincent Richer, Catherine Souchet, Sylvain Théréné, Mathieu Tiret, Nathalie Nési

  41-48

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  Preserving, improving and rediscovering: The role of the Research Centre of Viticulture and Enology in safeguarding grapevine genetic resources in Italy

  Maria Antonietta Palombi, Vittorio Alba, Marco Ammoniaci, Noemi Bevilacqua, Angelo Raffaele Caputo, Roberto Carraro, Stefano Favale, Simone Garavelloni, Massimo Gardiman, Massimo Morassut, Marina Niero, Roberto Nuti, Giuseppina Pipitone, Sergio Puccioni, Alessandra Zombardo

  29-40

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  History and current status of plant genetic resources conserved and maintained by the Hungarian central genebank

  Zoltan Ay, Attila Simon, Adrienn Gyurkó, Evelin Fekete, Balázs Horváth, Borbála Baktay

  13-28

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  A case study on lentil to demonstrate the value of using historic data stored in genebanks to guide the selection of resources for research and development projects

  Nadiia Vus, Olha Bezuhla, Hervé Houtin, Florence Naudé, Antonina Vasylenko, Anthony Klein, Oleh Leonov , Nadim Tayeh

  139-153

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  Quality management in a genebank environment: Principles and experiences at the Centre for Genetic Resources, The Netherlands (CGN)

  Theo van Hintum, Erik Wijnker

  6-12

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  Analysis of passport data of Sechium spp. from the Mexican chayote genebank in Huatusco, Veracruz

  Jorge Cadena-Iñiguez, Luis Angel Barrera­-Guzmán, Víctor Manuel Cisneros-Solano, Carlos Hugo Avendaño-Arrazate, María de Lourdes C Arévalo-Galarza, Kazuo N Watanabe, Jorge D Cadena-Zamudio

  126-138