AZ 372545
The Umbellifers (Apiaceae)
of the German Ex situ Genebank
Ulrike Lohwasser
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop
Plant Research (IPK), Dept. of Genebank,
Gatersleben, Germany
Reference collections
415,888 herbarium sheets
100,096 seeds & fruits
52,249 cereal spikes
The Genebank in Gatersleben
151,002 accessions
3,212 species
776 genera
Cereals and Grasses 65,448
28,111
2,494 wheat 769
barley 23,245 771
Legumes 28,066 1,436 beans (Phaseolus) 9,146 283 peas 5,295
180
Vegetable 18,794 2,556 tomatoes 3,544 90 onions 3,319 1,421 beet/Beta 2,320 180
Oil/Fibreplants 7,998 928 rapeseed 2,472 134 flax 2,324 104
Medicine/Spice Plants 8,344 1,476
Mutants 1,771 266
Forage crops 11,786 1,410 forage grasses 10,441 1,115
Potatoes 6,060 2,991
Total 151,002 13,557
Cultivation/no
of accessions Inventory Total number
of acc.
rye 2,411 73
Genebank Information System (GBIS)
http://gbis.ipk-gatersleben.de/gbis_i/
Quality Management System
certified according ISO 9001:2008
Operational genebank manual of IPK
Date of compilation
Day/month/year: 15.03.2011
(available on ECPGR website)
Draft Updated Genebank Standards:
Minimum Standards for Conservation of Orthodox Seeds
Total number of Apiaceae accessions / cultivation
genus
number of
accessions
number of regenerated
accessions in 2010
Aegopodium 2 2
Aethusa 10 9
Ammi 20 1
Anethum 204 31
Angelica 58 12
Anthriscus 34 9
Apium 249 30
Astrodaucus 1 0
Bifora 13 3
Bunium 5 3
Bupleurum 5 1
Capnophyllum 1 0
Carum 50 13
Caucalis 3 1
Centella 1 1
Chaerophyllum 32 11
Cicuta 2 2
Cnidium 1 0
Conium 18 6
Conopodium 1 1
Coriandrum 482 30
Crithmum 2 1
Cryptotaenia 3 0
Cuminum 50 2
Cyclospermum 1 0
Cymbocarpum 1 1
Daucus 497 93
Didiscus 1 0
Echinophora 1 0
Eremodaucus 1 1
Eryngium 9 3
Ferula 8 4
Foeniculum 190 24
Glehnia 1 0
Heracleum 106 20
Lagoecia 1 1
Laserpitium 1 1
Levisticum 24 4
Libanotis 2 0
Mediasia 2 1
Meum 4 3
Myrrhis 6 5
Oenanthe 5 1
Orlaya 4 1
Ostericum 3 1
Pastinaca 60 12
Petroselinum 233 37
Peucedanum 1 1
Pimpinella 44 8
Ridolfia 2 0
Saposhnikovia 3 2
Scandix 2 1
Seseli 5 5
Silaum 3 3
Sium 4 3
Smyrnium 9 6
Thapsia 1 1
Torilis 5 5
Trachyspermum 3 0
Turgenia 1 0
Total 2,491 420
genus number of accessions
Daucus 497
Coriandrum 482
Apium 249
Petroselinum 233
Anethum 204
Foeniculum 190
Heracleum 106
Genera with more than 100 accessions
• more than 20 ha field area for cultivation
• 170 small greenhouses for cross pollinators
• more than 3000 m2 greenhouse area
Regeneration Area
Storage at -18 °C, 10% rH
Seed Storage
• Long term seed storage of 127,000 accessions in
Gatersleben
• Germination tests of fresh harvested material (5,000
per year) and after a special period of long term storage
(2,000 – 6,000 per year)
• Control of relative humidity and temperature
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Storage of safety
duplicates
of the German
genebank
29,963 accessions
Svalbard Image Gallery (http://www.croptrust.org/main/arctic.php?itemid=217)
Research
The German Parsley Germplasm Collection –
Interaction of Morphological, Molecular and
Phytochemical Characters
Research
Intraspecific Taxonomy of Coriander
(Coriandrum sativum L.) – Comparison of Morphological,
Phytochemical, and Molecular Data
AEGIS Accessions
Important Points for AEGIS
• Passport data
• Characterisation data
• Taxonomical determination
• Foto, herbar, seed etc. documentation
• Safety duplication
• Quality standards (AQUAS, ISO 9001)
• Accessions with origin in Germany;
• Accessions collected by German or Austrian collectors
before 1945;
• Accessions collected by IPK staff; in the case of collecting
missions after 1993 – when CBD entered into force – only
those accessions that have been collected under a
material transfer agreement;
• Material collected by ‘foreign missions’ and donated to
IPK.
• Other material not conserved in other genebanks.
• Material must be freely available.
Criteria for AEGIS accessions at IPK
• Convention of Biological Diversity
• International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources
of Food and Agriculture (Annex1 species)
Material is part of the Multilateral System
• Standard Material Transfer Agreement
• Nagoya Protocol
• Breeders rights
• Special agreements
Sample Availability
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Number of distributed samples
7,036
3,163
12,237
7,137
1,965 2,340
Getreide/cereals
Leguminosen/legumes
Gemüse/vegetables
Heil-, Gewürzpflanzen/medicinal, spice plants
Kartoffeln/potatoes*
Futterpflanzen/forage plants*
Distributed samples in 2011
National Garden Festival
Aschersleben,
Germany 2010