Ex situ collections in Georgia are held in 8 institutes.
By September 2004 the National Database contains 623 accession.

Table 1: Institutes and their ex situ collections

	Institutes	Composition of collection	Size of collection	No of accessions entered into NDB
1	Institute of Farming	Cereals, food legumes, fodder grasses and vegetables	385	385
2	Institute of Botany	Cereals, food legumes and fodder grasses	223	223
3	Institute of Horticulture and Viticulture and Wine-Making	grapevine, fruit	850	10
4	Institute of Mountain Forestry	Wood plants	125	-
5	Agrarian State University, Genetic and Breeding Department	Cereals	120	-
6	NGO-Elkana	Cereals, food legumes and fodder grasses	-	-
7	Botanical Gardens		-	-
8	Mtskheta Breeding Station	Cereals, food legumes and fodder grasses	-	5
Total			1703	623

Table 2:Crops presented in NDB

Crops	Number of accessions in DB
Cereals	380
Food Legumes and Fodder grasses	127
Vegetables	98
Medicinal	7
Grapevine	10
Fruit	1
Total	623

Table 3: Status of accessions presented in NDB

Status	Number of accessions in DB
Multilane	3
Population	567
Segregating Population	1
Other	52
Total	623

Table 4: Population type of accessions presented in NDB

Population Type	Number of accessions in DB
Wild relatives	74
Traditional varieties	371
Unreleased Breeder’s material	128
Research Material	35
Weedy	6
Unknown	9
Total	623

Georgia in foreign genebanks
The search of Georgia origin accessions worldwide has been carried out and the results are shown in the table "Georgia in the foreign genebanks".

Last updated: 13 Sept 2004