Last updated: 19 Oct 05 genetic resources content funding bodies information resources & database species databases & taxonomy checkers useful
IPGRI: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/ FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations http://www.fao.org FAO: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture http://www.fao.org/ag/cgrfa/ FAO: Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture http://www.fao.org/biotech/index.asp?lang=en The International Code of Conduct for Plant Germplasm Collecting and Transfer http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/agps/PGR/icc.htm (English) http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/agps/PGR/icc/iccf.htm(French) http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/agps/PGR/icc/iccs.htm (Spanish)
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/ITPGRe.pdf (English)
ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/cgrfa/it/ITPGRr.pdf (Russian) The Global Crop Diversity Trust http://www.startwithaseed.org/items/homepage.php
In Russian UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme, Arendal, Norway http://www.grida.no/ The Global Diversity Foundation (Promoting agricultural, biological and cultural diversity around the world) http://www.globaldiversity.org.uk The Nordic Genebank http://www.ngb.se/ VIR: N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR), St. Petersburg, Russia http://vir.nw.ru CIMMYT: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center http://www.cimmyt.cgiar.org/ IPK: Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany http://www.ipk-gatersleben.de/en/ (English) funding bodies that have either directly contributed to the development of PGR conservation in the CAC region or who contribute to PGR conservation in general ACIAR: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (Contributed to capacity development and collection missions in CAC) http://www.aciar.gov.au CLIMA: Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture http://www.clima.uwa.edu.au/ The University of Western Australia http://www.uwa.edu.au/ USDA: The United States Department of Agriculture http://www.ars.usda.gov/ GEF: The Global Environment Facility http://www.gefweb.org/ GRDC: Grains Research and Development Corporation, Australia http://www.grdc.com.au/ GTZ: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Assistance Cooperation) http://www.gtz.de/unternehmen/english/ USAID: The United States Agency for International Development http://www.usaid.gov/ UNDP: United Nations Development Programme http://www.undp.org/ UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme http://www.unep.org The World Bank Group http://www.worldbank.org/ (English) http://www.wbln0018.wordbank.org/ECA/Rus.nsf (Russian) information resources and databases Plant Germplasm Resources http://www.plantstress.com/admin/WRFiles/germplasmwr.ht SINGER: The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources http://www.singer.cgiar.org EPGRIS: European Plant Genetic Resources Information Infra-Structure http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/epgris/ EURISCO catalogue http://eurisco.ecpgr.org/ GRIN: Genetic Resources Information Network http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs World Information and Early Warning System on PGR (WIEWS) http://apps3.fao.org/wiews/ Crop Science Society of America http://www.crops.org/ Centre for Genetic Resources, The Netherlands (CGN) http://www.cgn.wageningen-ur.nl/pgr/ species databases and taxonomy checkers Species 2000: http://www.sp2000.org GRIN: http://pgrdoc.ipgri.cgiar.org/taxcheck/grin/ BIG: http://www.big-flora.de ETI: Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification: http://www.eti.uva.nl ILDIS: World Database of Legumes: http://www.ildis.org IOPI: Global Plant Checklist: http://www.iopi.org ITIS: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System: http://www.itis.usda.gov useful UNU/IAS: United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan http://www.ias.unu.edu GTZ/CIMMYT collaborative project http://www.semena.kz/ (Russian)
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