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Conclusion
EUROPEAN CENTRAL FORAGES DATABASES 27
During the morning of 8 March the participants had the opportunity to visit the facilities of
the Løken Research Station.
The Section 'Discussion and Recommendations' of the report was presented to the
participants and adopted after some corrections. A task force consisting of Petter Marum,
Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton and Lorenzo Maggioni will finalize the Guidelines for the
regeneration of accessions in seed collections of the main perennial forage grasses and
legumes of temperate grasslands (Appendix III) while a second task force consisting of Petter
Marum, Merja Veteläinen and Ian Thomas will finalize the Summary of germplasm holdings
(Appendix IV). The participants agreed to supply missing information about Safetyduplication
capacities to L. Maggioni for inclusion in the report (Appendix V).
NGB and Sackville Hamilton will revise and finalize the Protocol for designating primary
holders of accessions (Appendix II) by the end of June 1997. Both Appendixes II and III will
be circulated to the Group before printing of the report. 13
The participants strongly recommend to the Steering Committee that Phase VI of
ECP/GR be implemented and that this include the contribution of the Forages Working
Group. The Group also strongly recommends that the system with a full-time Coordinator
be continued or even strengthened.
The Group welcomes the rapid progress made during Phase V, which was achieved
thanks to the appointment of a full-time Coordinator.
Petter Marum was elected Chairperson of the Group until the end of next meeting.
The next meeting was programmed tentatively for the first semester of 1999. However,
this date may be affected by the initiation of Phase VI of ECP/GR.
13 Appendix II and Appendix III were not circulated to the entire Group before printing, to avoid
further delay of the publication of the present report. These documents remain the responsibility of
the authors. However, relevant comments raised by the Group during the meeting, and
subsequently by the specific task forces, were taken in due consideration by the authors.