IBBR Bioresources / Collections
Herbaceous plants
- Mediterranean Germplasm Seed Bank: 882 species/59.000 accessions, of herbaceous species of agricultural interest, wild relatives, rare/endangered ecotypes, including about 39.000 Poaceae accessions
- Cynara cardunculus: 50 varieties and a mapped F1 population
- Medicago truncatula: 2.000 transposon-tagged lines and 2.300 EMS lines
- Solanum: 200 accessions from 40 species, 70 accession of traditional Italian tomato varieties;
- Aster: 30 species;
- Capsicum: 20 accessions;
Trees
- Citrus and relatives: 220 accessions;
- Olea: more than 800 accessions, including worldwide and local ancient varieties, controlled crosses;
- Vitis: 480 accessions;
- Others: Capparis spp., Zelkova sicula, Calendula maritima
Nematoda
- Caenorhabditis elegans: more than 3000 transgenic and mutant strains

Bacteria and Fungi
- Bacterial strains from rice rhizosphere, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)-degrading bacteria from polluted areas
- 600 endophytic fungi from hop and saffron, 200 lignicolous fungi.

From the Extremes: samples and organisms
- More than 100 Arctic and Antarctic Marine bacteria, invertebrates, fish tissue and blood, and ice, water, sediment samples
Details & Contacts
Contact: Gaetano Laghetti
Web site: https://ibbr.cnr.it/mgd/

Contact: Gabriella Sonnante
Web site: https://biomemory.cnr.it/browse/collections/CNR-IBBR-CYNARA
Contact: Francesco Carimi
Web site: https://ibbr.cnr.it/ppgr/

Contact: Ornella Calderini
Web page: https://ibbr.cnr.it/ibbr/resources/medicago-truncatula-mutant-collections
CNR-IBBR Perugia: Field collection of Olea (400 varieties worldwide, 180 genotypes from controlled crosses, 70 ancient local varieties).
Contact: Luciana Baldoni, Roberto Mariotti, Soraya Mousavi

Contact: Claudia Riccioni, Andrea Rubini, Beatrice Belfiori
Web site: https://biomemory.cnr.it/browse/collections/CNR-IBBR-FABI
CNR-IBBR Portici: Collection of herbaceous species (Solanum: 200 accessions from 40 species; Aster: 30 species; Capsicum: 20 accessions; Arabidopsis: 100 mutant lines). Collection of traditional Italian varieties of Solanum lycopersicum (70 accessions).
Contact: Stefania Grillo
Web site: https://biomemory.cnr.it/browse/collections/CNR-IBBR-PSC

Contact: Elia Di Schiavi
Web site: https://biomemory.cnr.it/browse/collections/CNR-IBBR-CELITABASE
CNR-IBBR Naples: Collection of polar fish tissues and blood (frozen at -80 °C), marine bacterial strains and invertebrates (frozen at - 80 °C), ice, water and sediment samples (frozen at - 20 °C). Collections from Southern (Antarctica) and Arctic Oceans.
Contact: Cinzia Verde, Daniela Giordano