The Nordic Gene Bank, NGB, Alnarp, SwedenThe Nordic Gene Bank, NGB, Alnarp, Sweden

Northern Regional Gene Bank cooperation

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Dag Terje Filip Endresen and Bent SkovmandThe Nordic Gene Bank

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TOPICS for this talkTOPICS for this talk

Nordic and Baltic genebank collaboration

SESTO - a regional PGR documentation system

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The Nordic Gene Bank - NGBThe Nordic Gene Bank - NGB

The Nordic Gene Bank is the joint gene bank for the 5 Nordic countries- Denmark- Finland- Iceland- Norway- Sweden

The NGB seed collection is truly shared. Every single accession is joint property as stated in the Kalmar declaration in 2003 (APN 2003:717).

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Nordic and Baltic PGR collaborationNordic and Baltic PGR collaboration

The Nordic Gene Bank is the centre of a distributed regional network based on working groups with crop experts from all the Nordic countries. The new Nordic and Baltic national programmes on biodiversity are also parts of the network.

One of the main priorities for the regional cooperation is development of a common online information platform for plant genetic resources.

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Nordic – Baltic cooperation projectNordic – Baltic cooperation project

In 1994 NGB started a new project helping the Baltic countries in conserving their plant genetic resources.

The seed store facilities and documentation has been the core elements of the cooperation.

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Nordic and BalticNordic and Baltic genebank seed collectionsgenebank seed collections

Seed storage NGB, Alnarp, Sweden

Seed storage (JPBI) Jõgeva, Estonia

Seed storage, Salaspils, Latvia

Seed storage, Dotnuva, Lithuania

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Joint activitiesJoint activities

Forage grasses in Dotnuva, Lithuania

There has also been some joint activity on regeneration and evaluation of accessions.

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SESTO [SESTO [http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]

A regional genebank documentation A regional genebank documentation systemsystem

Some genebank collections presented in SESTO

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SESTO was developed as the NGB documentation system. The application is later expanded to serve the genebanks of the whole region (2003-2005).

The main purpose of SESTO is management of the plant material in the genebank seedstore.

SESTO [SESTO [http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]

A regional genebank documentation systemA regional genebank documentation system

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The genebank staff have personal passwords and can edit the online data from the same interface as presented to public visitors.

The edit rights are individual corresponding to the relevant responsibilities at each genebank institute.

SESTO [SESTO [http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]

Remote data updateRemote data update

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SESTO [SESTO [http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]

Shared data sets on taxonomyShared data sets on taxonomy

The genebanks included in SESTO share data like for example the taxonomic species database and the common picture archive.

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SESTO [SESTO [http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]

Shared data sets with illustrationsShared data sets with illustrations

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SESTO [SESTO [http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]http://www.ngb.se/sesto/]

Shared picture archiveShared picture archive

© Many of the images included to the picture archive are free to use for any non-commercial, journalistic or private use. The contributors of the individual pictures choose themselves if the image is For genebank use only (1), Free to use for non-commercial purposes (2) or Public domain (3).

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Regional documentation Regional documentation meetingsmeetings

A number of regional training workshops and meetings in PGR documentation has been hosted from the NGB.

•Technical Linux Training Course, February 1997•Technical Linux Training Course, November 1998•Technical Linux Training Course, February 2000•EPGRIS first regional meeting, August 2001•EPGRIS second regional meeting, August 2002•EPGRIS regional training workshop, April 2003•SESTO user training, planned June 2005

A number of regional staff exchange visits between NGB and the genebanks of the Baltic countries and Russia have been organized.

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Thank you for listening!