Contact details
Address: Seed Testing Laboratory, Backweston Campus, Stacumney Lane, Celbridge-Co, Kildare-N/A-Ireland
Legal Status: Government Department 0
Email [1]
Material
Plant
| Cereals | X | Potatoes | X | ||
| Grasses | X | Beets (sugar, fodder) | |||
| Legumes | X | Oil crops | |||
| Fibre crops | Vine | ||||
| Vegetables | Fruits | ||||
| Ornamental crops | Model plants (arabidospsis, medigaco spp, etc.) |
Other(s): Crop Wild Relatives
Type of material maintained:
| Modern breeds and varieties | Traditional breeds and varieties | Populations | Other(s) |
| X | X |
Type of material stored:
| Living collections | Sperm | Egg cells | Seeds | Tissue cultures | Cells | Other(s) |
| X |
Collection description:
Date of start of the collection/population: 2001 – 2010
Expected period of maintenance of the collection (in years): > 25
Size of the collection (number of breeds): 969
Evolution of the size of the collection (last 10 years): =
Objectives and identity
Geographic origin of the material in the collection: National
Population management:
- ex situ
Objective of maintaining the collection/population:
| Conservation | Research | Breeding | Training | Awareness raising | Other(s) |
| X |
Activities
Management
| Use of available technical guidelines (e.g. FAO) | Yes |
| Use of unique identifier | Yes |
| Use of a documentation system | Yes Database with all accessions listed and amended as necessary when requests for germaplasm are made |
| Collection as part of a larger documentation system | National inventory: National inventory stored on database
European inventory: All accession are uploaded onto Eurisco |
| Database management system (software) | Excel |
| Document passport data | Yes |
| Link to passport data | http://eurisco.ipk-gatersleben.de/apex/f?p=103:15:0::NO::P15_ACCESSION_NUMBER%2CP15_CROP_NAME%2CP15_ORIGIN_COUNTRY%2CP15_HOLDING_INSTITUTE_CODE%2CP15_HOLDING_INSTITUTE_NAME:%2C%2C134%2C%2C |
| Document characterisation data | None carried out |
| Document evaluation data | None carried out |
| Other(s) | None carried out |
Duplication of material and documentation
Material: Yes
Documentation: No
Testing
| Viability testing of stored material: | Yes, but rarely |
| Diagnosis of the presence of pests and diseases, or contaminations: | No |
| Transgene detection: | No |
| Regeneration/multiplication: | No |
| Molecular analysis (e.g. DNA sequencing or fingerprinting): | No |
| Evaluation of useful traits: | No |
Overall viability level of your collection
Average: Difficuly to answer accurately without frequent viability testing on entire collection. The accessions that have been tested have shown huge variation in viability depending on the species and/or individual accession.
Percentage of the collection regenerated (per year): 2
Storage conditions of the collection
- Seed bank
Access and distribution conditions
| Providers | Recipients |
| No written agreement | Use of Standard MTA of International Treaty on PGR for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) |
Distribution of material (per year)
| Number of distributed samples | 2 |
| Percentage of requests which are fulfilled | >75% |
| Number of EU countries in which samples are distributed | 2 |
Budget and funding
Yearly budget for the collection (in euros): 10,000 – 50,000
Funding sources (in %)
| National government | 100% |
| Comments | Costs such as maintenance of the collection, storage, documentation and distribution of germplasm are subsumed in exisitng running costs of the organisation whose remit is much larger and diverse than genetic resources. Specific funding is solely made available for the collection of germplasm through a national scheme designed specifically to help the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources. Yearly budget and allocation costs (Question 33 & 34) are estimates for total costs including maintenance of the collection, storage, documentation and distribution of germplasm. |
Funding allocation (in %)
| Collection and uptake of new materials | 60% |
| Processing of new materials | 5% |
| Storage | 20% |
| Maintenance/regeneration | 5% |
| Documentation | 5% |
| Distribution | 5% |