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Status of national collections
EUROPEAN CENTRAL FORAGES DATABASES 9
Petter Marum reported on the results of a questionnaire to the Working Group members
regarding the number of accessions, storage conditions, the number of accessions in urgent
need of regeneration, number of accessions regenerated every year, and availability. He
presented in a summarized form the information received. In total there were 97 872
accessions. On average 45% of the accessions are stored under long-term conditions and 42%
under medium-term conditions. Twenty-seven percent of the accessions with available
information were in urgent need of regeneration
The Working Group recommended establishment of a small subgroup consisting of Petter Marum,
Merja Veteläinen and Ian D. Thomas, to update the summaries with data that were not available
before the meeting. The update will be sent to all participants for validation before it is entered into
the final report (Appendix IV of present report).
Reports from countries not included in the previous Working Group report
Information regarding National Collections not included in the previous report was made
available during this meeting for the following countries (see also Part II).
Lithuania
Nijole Lemeziene reported on the status of the national collection of perennial grasses and
legumes in Lithuania. The collection, held at the Lithuanian Agricultural Institute, Dotnuva,
consists of semi-natural and wild ecotypes, old varieties, registered varieties and valuable
breeding material. The greatest attention is given to the most important species for
Lithuanian agriculture, that is Medicago sativa L., Onobrychis sativa Scop., Trifolium pratense L.,
Trifolium repens L., Dactylis glomerata L., Festuca pratensis Huds., Festuca rubra L., Lolium
perenne L., Phleum pratense L. and Poa pratensis L.
The Netherlands
Loek J. M. van Soest presented the status of the forages collections maintained at CGN,
Wageningen, consisting of 465 accessions of eight different species: Lolium perenne L.,
L. multiflorum Lam., L. × hybridum Hausskn., Phleum pratense L., P. bertolonii DC., Dactylis
glomerata L., Trifolium pratense L. and T. repens L. The accessions of the different forage
species are documented for passport data in GENIS, the CGN information system, based on
the database management system ORACLE. So far no characterization/evaluation data of
the forage collections are included in GENIS. Activities planned for the next 5 years include
broadening the collection, particularly with original Dutch material; collecting activities (CIS
countries, e.g. Uzbekistan), regeneration of about 300 accessions, updating of passport data
and inclusion of evaluation data.
Slovakia
Jarmila Drobná presented the status of the forages collections of Slovakia. Institutions
dealing with forage genetic resources and/or related activities include the Research Institute
of Plant Production (RIPP) in Piešt'any, national coordination centre (674 forage accessions);
the Plant Breeding Station Levočské Lúky (1666 accessions) and the Plant Breeding Station
Horná Streda (337 accessions); the Grassland and Mountain Agriculture Research Institute
Banská Bystrica; LEGUMEN, a production and commercial company, Piešt'any (Lathyrus
spp. 106 accessions); the Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra (Lotus spp.)