Italy palombi

Current status of the germplasm data
sources: the case of Italian National
Germplasm database

M. Antonietta Palombi, Petra Engel,
Mario Giorgioni, F. Roberto De Salvador and C. Fideghelli
CRA – Fruit Tree Research Centre, Rome.

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PlantA-Res (http://planta-res.entecra.it)

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fully bilingual

PlantA-Res is the Italian online portal dedicated to activities concerning the safeguard
and sustainable utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
(PGRFA) in Italy, according to the International FAO Treaty for PGRFA.

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How is the PlantA-Res website born?
In 2004, the Ministry of Agriculture, Alimentation and Forestry Policy (MiPAAF), after
the ratification of the ITPGRFA and in response to this launched a Research
Programme named “Plant Genetic Resources/FAO International Treaty (RGV/FAO),
specifically targeted at the implementation of the objectives outlined in the Treaty, for
the access to plant genetic material and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits
arising from their utilization.
CRA-FRU was chosen for scientific coordination of a total of 31 Partners:

Research activities are aimed at the collection, conservation, characterization,
documentation and utilization of more than 70 crops essential for the Italian
agriculture, 26 of which are currently included in the Multilateral System of the
ITPGRFA.

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The website structure

“Home page”;
“The Project”;
“ Institutions” involved;
”The Database”;
”The Network” of Plant Genetic Resources;
”The News” section which reports on events, PGRs newsletter
and other relevant publications;
“Contact us” with information about participants.

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The Database

AIMS:
- facilitate access to information on the material
maintained in the different collections;

- give information concerning the evaluation of
agronomical, qualitative, technological and ornamental
aspects of this material.


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The Database
It currently, includes 239 genera for a total of 46,889 accessions,
grouped in 10 categories.

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Participants

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Passport Descriptors
(FAO/IPGRI MCPD + 4 additional descriptors )

HOLDING INSTITUT E

COLLECT ING SITE

InstCode

Collsite

IDENTIFICATION AND TAXONOMY

Latitude

AcceName

Longitude

Genus

Elevation

Species + SpAuthor

ADVANCED MATERIAL

SubTaxon + Sub TAuthor

BredCode/ BredDescr

Syn

Ancest

CropName + Cropname ENG

Donor Info

OrigCtry

DonorCode

SampStat

DonorNumb

ACQUISIT ION AND MAINT ENANCE

OTHER INFO

AcqDate

DuplSite/ DuplDescr

CollSrc

OtherNumb

Storage

YearReg

AccNumb

Remarks

MLSStatus

CropNameEng

AEGISStatus

AcceURL

COLLECTED MATERIAL

AcceUSE

CollCode/ CollDescr

Avail.

CollNumb
CollDate

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Search within the Database (1)
Research within the database allows to choose between one or more elements of the 7 core
criteria for the identification of an accession, or starting a more targeted search by
combining multiple criteria. Depending on the criteria chosen, the system generates a list of
accessions corresponding and also indicates the total number of these.


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Search within the Database (2)


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Specific Descriptors (1) example: Apple
as elaborated by the "Working Group on Agricultural Biodiversity", operating under the "National Plan on
Biodiversity in Agriculture", established by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Adopted from UPOV
1. Tree vigour

18. Fruit size

2. Tree type

19. Fruit: ribbing

3. Tree habit

20. Fruit: crowning at calyx end

4. Type of bearing

21. Fruit: bloom of skin

5. One-year-old shoot: length of internode

22. Skin: ground colour

6. One-year-old shoot: number of lenticels

23. Skin: relative area of overcolour

7. Beginning of flowering time

24. Skin: overcolour (bloom removed)

8: Flower: main colour (balloon stage)

25. Skin: pattern of overcolour

9. Flower: arrangement of petals

26. Skin: number of lenticels

10. Flower: position of anthers with respect to anthers

27. Fruit: length of stalk

11. Leaf blade: attitude in relation to shoot

28. Fruit: depth of stalk cavity

12. Leaf blade: length/ width ratio

29. Fruit: width of stalk cavity

13. Leaf blade: incisions on margin

30. Fruit: depth of eye basin

14. Leaf blade: pubescence on lower side

31. Fruit: width of eye basin

15. Length of petione

32. Flesh: firmness

16. Harvest time

33. Flesh: colour

17. Fruit shape

34: Fruit: aperture of locules (in cross section)


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Specific Descriptors (2)
as elaborated by experts working on the species (in case of no common descriptors lists)


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Perspectives

• Increase the number of accessions in the Database,
• Expand the database with specific descriptors of single species,
in order to enable the sharing, at national and international level,
of information derived from the activities of characterization which
institutions have been carrying out for years
• It is hoped that more istitutions (Universities, Regions, private
collectors, …) will join the database in order to make the website a
complete reference portal for Plant Genetic Resources preserved
in Italy.


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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!


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