INIA-CRF (CSIC) Plant genetic resources for agriculture and food base- collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by INIA. Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos (CSIC) on Apr 13, 2023 INIA. Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos (CSIC)

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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 to be used in research, breeding and capability, named in general Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA). One of the CRF’s activities to achieve this objective is the conservation of the base collections, as a security duplicate, of all the seed collections, maintained by the Spanish Genebanks Network. At July 2022 that collection was composed by 45000 accessions mainly vegetables, 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. Following a general classification of the PGFAA, quantitatively, the most important group are those of vegetables, grain legumes, winter cereals, spring cereal and forages; regarding the biological status are, mainly, landraces, wild species and commercial varieties. More information about this collection and a template to request this material are available at www.bancocrf.inia.es.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 44,988 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
44988
GermplasmAccession 
44988

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

De la Rosa L (2023). INIA-CRF (CSIC) Plant genetic resources for agriculture and food base- collection. Version 1.3. INIA. Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos (CSIC). Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.15470/lpai7b

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5fe177dc-3607-4875-83c6-7e6f3404bbef.  INIA. Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos (CSIC) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.

Keywords

occurrence; Specimen; plants; conservation; agrobiodiversity; food and agriculture; cereal; grain legumes; industrial crops; security collection

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Spanish National Inventory of Plant Genetic Resources (former version) https://webx.inia.es//web_inventario_nacional/Introduccioneng.asp ASCII Online search engine
CRF characterization data https://webx.inia.es//web_inventario_nacional/Caracterizacioneng.asp ASCII Online search engine
EURISCO https://eurisco.ipk-gatersleben.de/apex/eurisco_ws/r/eurisco/home ASCII Online search engine
GENESYS https://www.genesys-pgr.org/ ASCII Online search engine

Contacts

Lucía De la Rosa
  • Content Provider
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Staff Researcher
INIA. Centro Nacional de Recurso Fitogenéticos (CSIC)
  • Finca La Canaleja, Autovia A-2 km 36
28805 Alcalá de Henares
Madrid
ES
  • +34 915026670
Luis M. Guasch
  • Point Of Contact
  • CRF Director
INIA. Centro Nacional de Recurso Fitogenéticos (CSIC)
  • Finca La Canaleja, Autovia A-2 km 36
28805 Alcalá de Henares
Madrid
ES
  • +34 915026688

Geographic Coverage

CRF's active collection included accessions collected in 118 different countries

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Plantae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1977-01-01 / 2022-01-01

Sampling Methods

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 base included accessions collected in 118 different countries
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 step description:

  1. The methodology to obntais different depending on the type of material to be collected. • Collecting cultivated varieties: - Prospecting to determine the collection area - Contact with local agriculture staff and potential donors of local varieties - Schedule germplasm collecting mission to make collection at harvest time of after farmers harvest - Collect seed of crop species from farmer's fields, stores or local market - On-site collection of passport data, uses, agricultural cycles and other interesting information - Uniquely identify each sample. - Package the materials in optimal conditions until delivery to the genebank facilities. • Collection of wild species - List the species of interest - Apply, for each species and location, for the requested collection permits - Locate 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 optimise this information, it is interesting to contact 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.

Collection Data

Collection Name INIA-CRF (CSIC) Plant genetic resources for agriculture and food basecollection
Collection Identifier URL
Parent Collection Identifier No aplica
Specimen preservation methods Other
Curatorial Units Between 100 and 20,000 Semillas

Additional Metadata

The request for these materials, to be used in the above mentioned activities, can be made using the form included in the National Inventory of Plant Genetic Resources web site (https://bancocrf.inia.es/es/). The shipment will be made after signing the corresponding material transfer agreement (FAO Standard Material Transfer Agreement or other MTA).

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.

Maintenance Description The seeds of the CRF's active collection are stored at low temperature and maintained with a low moisture content (<7%). This collection is stored at temperatures of -4ºC in airtight resealable glass containers with humidity indicator as a control- measure.
Alternative Identifiers 10.15470/lpai7b
5fe177dc-3607-4875-83c6-7e6f3404bbef
https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=inia-crf-base