Merja Vetel¤inen MTT Agrifood Research Finland National Program
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Gene banks work together
Merja Veteläinen
MTT Agrifood Research Finland
National Program for PGR
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Contents
• Introduction
• Co-operation: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
• Driving forces
• Conclusions
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - established in the permafrost in the mountains of Svalbard, is designed to store duplicates of seeds from seed collections around the globe.
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Maps of all of the Countries of Europe Baltic Countries British Isles European Union Mediterranean Sea Scandinavia Ex-U.S.S.R and Iron Curtain Countries Europe Map Puzzle Print Maps of Europe and the Countries of Europe Arctic Map Maps of All Countries Map of Europe
Methodology transfer &
development
Documentation
Collecting
Capacity building
Conservation
ECPGR
Evaluation
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Collection & Conservation • Collecting together:
Expertise, increasing collection diversity
• Conservation: Expertise, task sharing, resource use
– The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
– The CGIAR center collections
– Dutch-German potato collection, Allium collection at Olomouc
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Crop conservation strategies
• Identifying important collections and gaps
Avoid duplicate work, capture the diversity
• Linking ex situ and in situ conservation
• Rational, secure and good quality conservation
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Documentation • Gene bank
management systems – local development
• Descriptor lists – agreed formats, ECPGR central crop DBs
• Portals for users – many directions
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Characterization and evaluation
• Regional and international collaboration – EU support
• Important traits?
• Data availability in the information systems?
• Progress?
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Methodology development • Project based
activities e.g.
– Conservation methods
– Regeneration methods
– Molecular methods
– Diversity analyses
Etc.
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Common Research Strategy
• A tool to prioritize the work and avoid overlapping
• A tool to communicate with the funding agencies
– Urgent needs
– Support to national and common EU policies
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Capacity building from the Nordic perspective
• Nordic - Baltic Cooperation on Plant Genetic Resources
• SADC Programme for Conservation of Plant Genetic resources in Southern Africa
• South East European Development
Network on Plant Genetic Resources (SEEDNET)
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Capacity building benefits
Direct benefits
• Technical facilities
• Human resources
• Funding
Indirect benefits
• Future collaboration partnerships: “We know already each other”
• New perspectives on genetic resources – utilization
• Cultural knowledge
• Tradition and means for co-operation
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Co-ordination
Regionally
• Bilateral arrangements
– The Dutch - German Potato Collection
• Regional gene banks
– The Nordic model
– Establishment support
• Continent wide collaboration
– ECPGR and AEGIS
Globally
• IPGRI/Bioversity International
• CGIAR
• FAO -SoW
?
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What should we know of each other?
• Tasks and scopes of different gene banks
• Research and innovations
• Human and technical capacities
• Services provided: users, other gene banks
• Policies
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Driving forces • Biodiversity loss
– Uniform agricultural systems
– In situ conservation of CWRs
• Climate change
– Regional in situ & ex situ plans
• Nutrition and food security
– Plant breeding
• Political and economical changes
– Public awareness
• Changes in PGR user community
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• Intensify co-operation in order to carry out their basic task in most rational and cost-effective way
• Take care of the interests of all the PGR users including the coming generations
• Work for global “gene bank information centre”?
What should Gene Banks should do?
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Conclusions
• Gene banks have a long tradition for collaboration at technical level
• A clear co-ordination body would benefit the overall progress in PGR conservation and use
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