ISHS Acta Horticulturae 649: Euro Berry Symposium - Cost 836 Final Workshop
THE EUROPEAN STRAWBERRY DATABASE AND BUILDING UP A EUROPEAN CORE COLLECTION |
| Authors: | M. Geibel, P. Roudeillac, A. Masny, K. Trajkovski, M. Coman, D.W. Simpson |
| Keywords: | Genetic resources, genebanks, Fragaria x ananassa, COST action 836 |
| Abstract:
During an earlier European AIR project in the years 1994 and 1995 a first inventory was created with 900 strawberry cultivars of the main European collections. In 1998 the European COST action 836 "Integrated research in berries" was started to coordinate the scientific activities in 22 partner countries. A first overview of the responsible working group for genetic resources (WG1) has shown that the collections of the participating institutes have been changed significantly within this few years. Unfortunately, also during the COST action the collections changed significantly due to loss of persons, money and phytosanitary problems. At the end of the COST action 836 the database includes 2819 entries of 1056 strawberry cultivars from 20 collections. Additionally, about 400 wild species accessions are preserved in some of these institutions. Nearly half of the listed cultivars are grown only at one site and at least six important old cultivars seem to be still lost. Therefore, 108 important cultivars were selected as the core mainly for historical reasons. The work was focussed on these cultivars to ensure at least their maintenance and to collect more information about them. Our vision was to provide a helpful tool for genebanks, breeders and other users in order to ensure safety of the germplasm and to reduce redundancy between the collections. However, at the end of the COST action 836 the continuation of the work is endangered. | |
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