Mediterranean
Germplasm Database

Aims and goals

The main objective of the MG collection is the safeguard of genetic resources of herbaceous plants interesting for Italian and Mediterranean agriculture.

A particular attention is devoted to specific segments of plant genetic resources, such as crop landraces (including “typical products”) or agro-ecotypes threaten with extinction, crop wild relatives, and plants potentially useful for the extraction of bioactive or technological compounds.

The main commitments of the genebank since 1970 up to now may be summarized as follows:

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Diversity in spike shape, dimesions and morphology in Triticum.
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Spikes of Triticum dicoccon Schrank cv. “Lucanica”.

Plant Genetic Resources (PRG)

1. What kind of PGRs are we dealing with?

2. How the PRG are conserved at the MG genebank?

3. What kind of information on PGRs is recorded in the MG database?

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An example of the kind of data collected for the characterization and assessment of an accession of wheat.

PGR preserved as seed collections

A summary of all the accessions maintained as seed collection at the MG genebank (aggregated by functional group, family and genus) is reported below (updated: Oct 2015). For a fully detailed, updated report, please go to the page “MGD Statistics”.

 
Functional Group Family / Group Genus No.
Species
No.
Accessions
Food Crops Graminaceae Triticum 27 31000
Hordeum 4 1950
Aegilops 31 1523
Zea 2 1286
Secale 12 381
Avena 2 261
Oriyza 4 42
Sub-total 82 36443
Leguminosae Pisum 1 4400
Vicia faba 1 1950
Phaseolus 15 1258
Vigna 50 936
Cicer 1 336
Lens 5 315
Lathyrus 15 190
Lupinus 5 104
Sub-total 93 9489
Vegetable crops Brassica 14 597
Lycopersicon 10 539
Allium 8 142
Cucurbita 4 138
Beta 2 133
Cucumis 4 132
Capsicum 5 121
Lactuca 3 91
Raphanus 2 89
Cichorium 2 84
Citrullus 2 65
Others 42 443
Sub-total 98 2574
Forage Crops Graminaceae Sorghum 4 341
Lolium 6 313
Dactylis 1 224
Phalaris 8 158
Others 56 885
Sub-total 75 1921
Leguminosae Vicia 65 2400
Medicago 23 1154
Trifolium 28 487
Hedysarum 4 149
Trigonella 3 86
Others 28 364
Sub-total 151 4640
Medicinal and
officinal plants
Various Sesamus 1 116
Heliantus 4 93
Manihot 1 83
Hibiscus 3 66
Amaranthus 4 46
Abelmoschus 1 44
Sub-total 14 448
Grand Total - - 513 55515

For more information, please contact Dr. Gaetano Laghetti (gaetano.laghetti@ibbr.cnr.it).

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