INIA. Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos (CSIC)

Description

The mission of the CRF is to contribute to preserve and sustainably use of genetic diversity of native plant varieties and neglected old varieties to be used in research, breeding and capability, named in general Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA). The main CRF’s activities to achieve this objective are the conservation of the base collections, as a security duplicate, of all the seed collections maintains by the Spanish Genebanks Network. At July 2022 that collection was composed by 45000 accessions mainly vegetables, identified by passport data established following the FAO/Biodiversity Multicrop Passport Descriptors including: identification code in holding institution, taxonomic information and common and local name, data of the collection site, biological status, acquisition sources and storage condition, the conservation of the cereal, grain legumes and industrial crops and the management and maintenance of the Spanish National Inventory of PGRFA

Contacts

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Lucia De la Rosa
Telephone: 34 91 5026670
email: lucia.delarosa@inia.csic.es

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Lucia De la Rosa
Telephone: 34 915026670
email: lucia.delarosa@inia.csic.es

INIA. Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos (CSIC)
Finca La Canaleja, Autovia de Aragón km 36
Alcalá de Henares
28805
Madrid
ES
email: direccion.crf@csic.es