AZ 372545

The Umbellifers (Apiaceae)

of the German Ex situ Genebank

Ulrike Lohwasser

Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop

Plant Research (IPK), Dept. of Genebank,

Gatersleben, Germany

Reference collections

415,888 herbarium sheets

100,096 seeds & fruits

52,249 cereal spikes

The Genebank in Gatersleben

151,002 accessions

3,212 species

776 genera

Cereals and Grasses 65,448

28,111

2,494 wheat 769

barley 23,245 771

Legumes 28,066 1,436 beans (Phaseolus) 9,146 283 peas 5,295

180

Vegetable 18,794 2,556 tomatoes 3,544 90 onions 3,319 1,421 beet/Beta 2,320 180

Oil/Fibreplants 7,998 928 rapeseed 2,472 134 flax 2,324 104

Medicine/Spice Plants 8,344 1,476

Mutants 1,771 266

Forage crops 11,786 1,410 forage grasses 10,441 1,115

Potatoes 6,060 2,991

Total 151,002 13,557

Cultivation/no

of accessions Inventory Total number

of acc.

rye 2,411 73

Genebank Information System (GBIS)

http://gbis.ipk-gatersleben.de/gbis_i/

Quality Management System

certified according ISO 9001:2008

Operational genebank manual of IPK

Date of compilation

Day/month/year: 15.03.2011

(available on ECPGR website)

Draft Updated Genebank Standards:

Minimum Standards for Conservation of Orthodox Seeds

Total number of Apiaceae accessions / cultivation

genus

number of

accessions

number of regenerated

accessions in 2010

Aegopodium 2 2

Aethusa 10 9

Ammi 20 1

Anethum 204 31

Angelica 58 12

Anthriscus 34 9

Apium 249 30

Astrodaucus 1 0

Bifora 13 3

Bunium 5 3

Bupleurum 5 1

Capnophyllum 1 0

Carum 50 13

Caucalis 3 1

Centella 1 1

Chaerophyllum 32 11

Cicuta 2 2

Cnidium 1 0

Conium 18 6

Conopodium 1 1

Coriandrum 482 30

Crithmum 2 1

Cryptotaenia 3 0

Cuminum 50 2

Cyclospermum 1 0

Cymbocarpum 1 1

Daucus 497 93

Didiscus 1 0

Echinophora 1 0

Eremodaucus 1 1

Eryngium 9 3

Ferula 8 4

Foeniculum 190 24

Glehnia 1 0

Heracleum 106 20

Lagoecia 1 1

Laserpitium 1 1

Levisticum 24 4

Libanotis 2 0

Mediasia 2 1

Meum 4 3

Myrrhis 6 5

Oenanthe 5 1

Orlaya 4 1

Ostericum 3 1

Pastinaca 60 12

Petroselinum 233 37

Peucedanum 1 1

Pimpinella 44 8

Ridolfia 2 0

Saposhnikovia 3 2

Scandix 2 1

Seseli 5 5

Silaum 3 3

Sium 4 3

Smyrnium 9 6

Thapsia 1 1

Torilis 5 5

Trachyspermum 3 0

Turgenia 1 0

Total 2,491 420

genus number of accessions

Daucus 497

Coriandrum 482

Apium 249

Petroselinum 233

Anethum 204

Foeniculum 190

Heracleum 106

Genera with more than 100 accessions

• more than 20 ha field area for cultivation

• 170 small greenhouses for cross pollinators

• more than 3000 m2 greenhouse area

Regeneration Area

Storage at -18 °C, 10% rH

Seed Storage

• Long term seed storage of 127,000 accessions in

Gatersleben

• Germination tests of fresh harvested material (5,000

per year) and after a special period of long term storage

(2,000 – 6,000 per year)

• Control of relative humidity and temperature

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Storage of safety

duplicates

of the German

genebank

29,963 accessions

Svalbard Image Gallery (http://www.croptrust.org/main/arctic.php?itemid=217)

Research

The German Parsley Germplasm Collection –

Interaction of Morphological, Molecular and

Phytochemical Characters

Research

Intraspecific Taxonomy of Coriander

(Coriandrum sativum L.) – Comparison of Morphological,

Phytochemical, and Molecular Data

AEGIS Accessions

Important Points for AEGIS

• Passport data

• Characterisation data

• Taxonomical determination

• Foto, herbar, seed etc. documentation

• Safety duplication

• Quality standards (AQUAS, ISO 9001)

• Accessions with origin in Germany;

• Accessions collected by German or Austrian collectors

before 1945;

• Accessions collected by IPK staff; in the case of collecting

missions after 1993 – when CBD entered into force – only

those accessions that have been collected under a

material transfer agreement;

• Material collected by ‘foreign missions’ and donated to

IPK.

• Other material not conserved in other genebanks.

• Material must be freely available.

Criteria for AEGIS accessions at IPK

• Convention of Biological Diversity

• International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources

of Food and Agriculture (Annex1 species)

Material is part of the Multilateral System

• Standard Material Transfer Agreement

• Nagoya Protocol

• Breeders rights

• Special agreements

Sample Availability

0

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

40,000

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Number of distributed samples

7,036

3,163

12,237

7,137

1,965 2,340

Getreide/cereals

Leguminosen/legumes

Gemüse/vegetables

Heil-, Gewürzpflanzen/medicinal, spice plants

Kartoffeln/potatoes*

Futterpflanzen/forage plants*

Distributed samples in 2011

National Garden Festival

Aschersleben,

Germany 2010