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Plant GERMOPLASM bank-upm |
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Official Master in Plant Genetic Resources –UPM . Designed in accordance with the European Space of Higher Education, it is part of the Official Postgraduate Program “Biotechnology and Genetic Resources of Plants and Associated Microorganisms”. |
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ENSCONET (European Native Seed Conservation Network) coordinates seed conservation activities of wild plants within Europe. This network involves different institutions, working jointly on seed preservation for the future. |
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The Seed Biology Place. Web page with scientific information on seed biology. |
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ISTA (International Seed Testing Association) Achieves its vision by producing internationally agreed rules for seed sampling and testing, accrediting laboratories, promoting research, and providing international seed analysis certificates, training and dissemination of knowledge in seed science and technology to facilitate seed trading nationally and internationally. |
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Asociación Ibero-macaronésica de Jardines Botánicos (AIMJB). The main objective of this association is cooperation among member Botanic Gardens, promoting and coordinating projects for joint action and encouraging the exchange of knowledge, experience, documentation and plant matter. |
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Fundación Biodiversidad is a non-profit foundation, with activity in conservation, study and sustainable use of biodiversity, as well as international cooperation for development. |
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FAO The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information |
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GBIF (Global Information Biodiversity Facility). International iniciative to include in Internet all the available information on life organisms at a global level.
Nodo Nacional de Información en Biodiversidad (Nodo Español de GBIF) |
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INIA-CRF (Centro de Recursos Fitogenéticos, INIA-CRF). Centre of Plant Genetic Resources of the Spanish Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA). |
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ECPGR in situ and on-farm conservation network. ECPGR is a collaborative Programme among most European countries, aimed at facilitating the long-term conservation on a cooperative basis and the increased utilization of plant genetic resources in Europe. |
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Bioversity International. Non profit organization with offices in 20 countries and working on projects in over 100 countries with about 300 research partners. The main aim is to undertake research to improve people's lives through the use and conservation of agricultural biodiversity. |
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Euro+Med PlantBase provides an on-line database and information system for the vascular plants of Europe and the Mediterranean region, against an up-to-date and critically evaluated consensus taxonomic core of the species concerned. |
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Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) was founded in 1987 to link botanic gardens as a co-operating global network for effective plant conservation. It now links over 2500 institutions in over 120 countries. |
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Sociedad Española de Biología de Conservación de las Plantas. Spanish Association of Plant Conservation Biology
Atlas y Libro Rojo de la Flora Vascular Amenazada de España: Atlas and Red Book of the Threatened Vascular Spanish Flora |
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IUCN Crop Wild Relative Specialist Group. The CWRSG is a network of crop wild relative experts around the world dedicated to working jointly to promote the conservation and use of crop wild relatives. |
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PGR Forum (European Crop Wild Relative Diversity Assessment and Conservation Forum) is a Thematic Network funded under the EC Framework 5 Programme for Research, Key action 2 ‘Global change, climate and biodiversity’, 2.2.3 ‘Assessing and conserving biodiversity’. PGR Forum provides a European forum for the assessment of taxonomic and genetic diversity of European crop wild relatives and the development of appropriate conservation methodologies. |
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EURISCO is a web-based catalogue that provides information about ex situ plant collections maintained in Europe. EURISCO is based on a European network of ex situ National Inventories (NIs) that makes the European biodiversity data available everywhere in the world. |
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WIEWS The World Information and Early Warning System (WIEWS ) on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA), has been established by FAO, as a world-wide dynamic mechanism to foster information exchange among Member Countries and as an instrument for the periodic assessment of the State of the World's PGRFA. |
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Proyecto Babilonia. Babilonia is a global system of botanic information, supported by the Asociación Ibero-Macaronésica de Jardines Botánicos (AIMJB). (Association of Iberian-Macaronesian Botanic Gardens). Babilonia works towards the integrated management of the different collections and to bring together specialists and the general public though Internet. |
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ISSS (International Society for Seed Science) is a professional organization of seed scientists committed to fostering and promoting research, education and communication in the scientific understanding of seeds. |
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Efficient long-term seed preservation. Web page of Professor Gómez Campo with several of his papers. |