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National Inventory Database of Armenian PGR Unit has been created according to the international contemporary standards using the experience of other countries. It is based on Access Software and modified to the needs and specific features of Armenia.

seed collection
By 27 October 2004 database of Armenian PGR Unit includes 3198 accessions (seed collections).
To view the part of Armenian database go to EURISCO catalogue: http://eurisco.ecpgr.org/
 

Last updated: 27 Oct 04


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Table 1: Institutes and their ex situ collections

  Institutes Composition of collection Size of collection  No of accessions entered into NDB
1 Laboratory of Crops and Their Wild Relatives Gene Pool within Armenian Agricultural Academy Seed collection of WR and landraces of cereals, legumes, fodder grasses, vegetables. Hybrids of wheat Seed: ap. 2500 Seed: 1457 (core collection)
2 Institute of Botany, Botanical Gardens Seed collection of WR and landraces of cereals, legumes, fodder grasses, vegetables.
Live collection of Rosaceae, Oleaceae. Caprifoliaceae, Fabaceae, Celtis, Pistachio, Quercus, Zelkova, Corylus, Staphylea, Morus, Sorbus etc. and grapes
Seed: 1048 Seed: 1048
3 Scientific Center of Agronomy and Plant Protection Modern varieties and foreign lines of cereals and legumes Total: ap. 6600
Modern var: ap. 5000 (wheat:3500;barley-1250)
WR and landraces of legumes: 14 core collection
14 (WR and LA of legumes)
4 Scientific Center of Vegetables and Industrial Crops WR and landraces of vegetables and melons Seed: ap. 700 668
5 Scientific Center of Viticulture, Fruit Growing and Winemaking Live collection of WR and landraces of grapes and fruits Live: 480 Seed: 11
6 Scientific Center of Agrochemistry and Soils Sciences Live collection of WR and landraces of grapes Live: 200 -
Total     Seed: ap. 10 900 (core: ap. 4 000) 3198 (core)

Table 2: Families presented in NDB
Family Number of accessions in DB
Alliaceae 3
Apiaceae 23
Asparagaceae 16
Asteraceae 32
Berberidaceae 2
Brassicaceae 1
Caryophyllaceae 1
Chenopodiaceae 38
Cucurbitaceae 26
Cupressaceae 1
Elaeagnaceae 1
Fabaceae 802
Hyacinthaceae 1
Iridaceae 4
Lamiaceae 14
Liliaceae 48
Linaceae 5
Papaveraceae 1
Poaceae 1425
Polygonaceae 4
Primulaceae 1
Rhamnaceae 2
Rosaceae 16
Thymelaeaceae 1
Unidentified 18
Vitaceae 11
Zygophyllaceae 1
Total: 3198

Table 3: Population type of accessions presented in NDB
Population type Number of accessions in DB
Wild relatives + weedy 2416
Traditional varieties/Landraces 331
Breeding material 262
Hybrids 73
Advanced cultivar 9
Unclear and to be confirmed 107
Total: 3198

herbarium
By 27 October 2004 herbarium collections of Armenia are presented in database by 2319 accession.

Armenia in foreign genebanks
As there is no genebank within the country Armenia highly relays on foreign genebanks in regard with its germplasm conservation.

 

 

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