Descriptors for Documenting PGRFA
PGRFA have to be thoroughly documented. If well documented PGRFA can be handled properly and their access, exchange and use can be increased. To do so, the Institute applies a set of standard, internationally agreed descriptors. These include passport descriptors, management descriptors, characterization and evaluation descriptors, and descriptors about seed viability and size of accessions.
Passport information
Any sample that enters the National Genebank, must be accompanied by adequate passport information, including a unique identifier, its scientific name, common name, the date of acquisition, the site where it has been collected, etc. to ensure that the sample is properly documented. Samples stored at the National Gene Bank are described according to the FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors V.2, published in 2012.
Minimal Descriptors for Collection, Sample processing, regeneration, characterization, etc.
- Collecting_Labels_General_model_2017.
- Descriptors_for_Characterization_STANDARD_TABLE.
- Descriptors for Seed Processing and Management.
- 2.FAO_Genebank_standards_for_orthodox_seeds.
- 3.FAO_Field_genebank_standards.
- 4.FAO_Genebank_standards_for_in_vitro_culture_and_cryopreservation.
- Collecting_form_for_farmers’_knowledge_of_plants.
- Annex 1 treaty.
Passport Descriptors
- EURISCO_STANDARD_TABLE.
- MCPD_EURISCO_Descriptors_2011.
- FAOBIOVERSITY MULTI-CROP PASSPORT DESCRIPTORS V.2_2012.
- EURISCO_Descriptors_Version_2.
- MULTI-CROP PASSPORT DESCRIPTORS_2012_V.2.
- EURISCO_Descriptors_V.1_2011_Permbledhje.
- EURISCO_Descriptors_Version_2_Permbledhje.
- Descriptors for Seed Processing and Management_2017.
- Descriptoret e Fasules.
- Descriptors for Phaseolus, 1982.
- Descriptors for Phaseolus Coccineus.
- Deskriptoret_e_Misrit.
- Descriptors for maize.
- Descriptors for Wheat.
- key_descriptors_wheat.
- key_descriptors_maize.
- Descriptors for Allium, 2001.
- Descriptors for barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), 1994.
- Descriptors for Citrus.
- Descriptors for grapevine (Vitis spp.), 1997.
- Descriptors for Grapevine.
- Descriptors for Lathyrus spp.
- Descriptors for Melon, 2003.
- Descriptors for Phaseolus Coccineus.
- Descriptors for Phaseolus, 1982.
- Descriptors_for_lentil.
- Faba_bean_Descriptors.
- Descriptors for Plum, 1984.
- Descriptors for Sesame.
- Descriptors for Solanaceae plants.
- Descriptors for sorghum [S. bicolor (L.) Moench].
- Descriptors for tea (Camellia sinensis), 1997.
- Descriptors for tomato, Lycopersicon_spp.
- Descriptors for tree tomato and wild relatives, 2013.
- Descriptors for wild and cultivated Carrots, 1998.
- Descrittori per la Rucola Eruca spp. 2002.
- Descriptors_Pisum_UPOV.
- Descriptors for genetic markers technologies, 2004.
- Core descriptors for in_situ conservation of crop wild relatives.
- Descriptors for characterization of olives_2017 (in ALB).
Regeneration guidelines
- Regeneration of accessions in seed collections, 1997.
- Regeneration_of_seed_crops_and_their_wild_relatives_1.
- Regeneration guidelines, small_grains.
