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P-62<br />

Conservation, characterisation <strong>and</strong> management of grapevine genetic resources: the<br />

European GrapeGen06 project<br />

P. This* 1 , R. Bacilieri 1 , S. Gr<strong>and</strong>o 2 , E. Maul 3 , G. Munoz 4 , J. Eiras-Dias 5 , A. Schneider 6 , D.<br />

Legr<strong>and</strong> 7 , M. Boselli 8<br />

1 UMR DIAPC INRA-Montpellier Supagro, Montpellier, France ; 2 Istituto Agrario di San<br />

Michele all’Adige (IASMA) Fondazione Edmund Mach Research Centre, Trento, Italy;<br />

3 Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Ressearch Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), Institute for<br />

Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof, Siebeldingen, Germany; 4 Instituto Madrileño de<br />

Investigación y Desarrollo Rural, Agrario y Alimentario (IMIDRA), Ronda de Atocha,<br />

Arganzuela, Spain; 5 Estacao Vitivinicola Nacional, EVN – INIAP, Dois Portos, Portugal;<br />

6 Istituto di Virologia Vegetale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR-IVV, 10135<br />

Grugliasco Torino, Italy ; 7 UMT GenoVigne, IFV-INRA-Montpellier Supagro, Montpellier ;<br />

8 Dipartimento scienze e Tecnologie e Mercati della Vite e del Vino, Università di Verona,<br />

Floriano, Italy<br />

*Corresponding author : this@supagro.inra.fr<br />

The genomic revolution have been the starting point for the renewal of attention on the extent of<br />

natural occurring variation in many plants species. In this regards, the use of genetic diversity in<br />

grape may greatly improve our underst<strong>and</strong>ing of quantitative economically important traits.<br />

Genetic resources for grape are very numerous, in particular in Europe, but the exact extent of<br />

diversity is still difficult to know. In the scope of the European GrapeGen06 project, research<br />

institutes <strong>and</strong> grapevine collections from 17 countries of Europe, Caucasus <strong>and</strong> North-Africa are<br />

working together for the characterization <strong>and</strong> management of grapevine genetic resources,<br />

including wild accessions of Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris. The initial work consisted of<br />

inventorying <strong>and</strong> describing the varieties in the partners’ collections, using st<strong>and</strong>ardized<br />

morphological, agronomic, <strong>and</strong> molecular descriptors, <strong>and</strong> to link the information into a unique<br />

European web-database. The project is in particular focusing on old autochthonous varieties. The<br />

database website, numbering more than 25000 accessions, is open for consultation, <strong>with</strong> different<br />

levels of access that allows in-dept searches but also confidentiality, according to the user needs.<br />

At the end of 2010, the fingerprint data will also be online, so that other collections or<br />

professionals can check their own varieties against the referenced varieties to verify names <strong>and</strong><br />

true-to-typeness. The final objective of the European project is to promote an optimized<br />

conservation scheme of the Vitis germplasm, involving ex-situ, cryo- <strong>and</strong> on-farm conservation,<br />

so that the resources are permanently maintained, easily accessible <strong>and</strong> field-tested in a pertinent<br />

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