Expertise and role of the participants
In the mean time some participants have retired or changed their position.
In the list below the successors (as far known) are included, to keep the list of contacts up-to-date.
In the project were involved:
- twelve participants:
CGN,
SSA,
INRA,
NGB,
SASA,
SCRI,
HDRA,
Teagasc,
IPK,
FAL-PF,
LAGS,
Arche Noah.
- five ECPGR supported partners from Eastern Europe:
CZE,
HUN,
POL,
UKR,
RUS.
- and some institutions follow the project as observers.
Participants
- Participant 1 (coordinator)
- Name and address: R. Hoekstra, Plant Research International (previously CPRO),
Centre for Genetic Resources the Netherlands (CGN), P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
- FAX: +31-317 423110
- Email: roel.hoekstra@wur.nl
- Expertise: genebank management, documentation
- Role: coordination, management database related potato species (group B), regeneration, evaluation
- Home page:
CGN potato collection
- FAO institute code: NLD037
- Participant 2
- former name and address: J.P. van Loon (retired), Stichting Stimulering Aardappelonderzoek (not existing anymore)
current contact: the Dutch association for breeding, tissue culture, production and trade of seeds and young plants:
Plantum NL, P.O. Box 462, 2800 AL Gouda, the Netherlands
- FAX: +31-182 688667
- contact person : secretary
- Expertise : variety registration
- Role : evaluation
- Related page: NIVAA list of Dutch potato seed exporters:
www.potato.nl/uk/about_potatoes/trade?distcat=108
- Participant 3
- Name and address: D. Ellissèche (retired), INRA/Université Rennes 1,
Amélioration des Plantes et Biotechnologies Végétales (APBV), Equipe pomme de terre Domaine de Kéraïber,
29260 Ploudaniel, France
Successor: Jean-Eric Chauvin.
- FAX: +33-229 626 330
- Email: Jean-Eric.Chauvin@rennes.inra.fr
- Expertise : potato breeding, variety characterization
- Role : evaluation
- Related page: www.rennes.inra.fr/apbv
- FAO institute code: FRA179
- Participant 4
- Name and address: M. Veteläinen (changed position), Nordic Gene Bank, Box 41, 23053 Alnarp, Sweden
The NGB is a regional genebank. In 2008 it joined with the
Nordic Forestry Resource and Nordic Animal Genetic Resource institutes to form NORDGEN -
the Nordic Genetic Resource Center of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden).
- current contact: Svein Solberg
- Role : documentation NORDGEN potato collection
- General home page: nordgen
- Potato crop page: homepage potato;
previous NGB page potato
- FAO institute code: SWE054 (previously SWE002)
- Participant 5 (sub-coordinator variety collections)
- Name and address: S.F. Carnegie, Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA; formerly: Scottish Agricultural Science Agency),
East Craigs, Roddinglaw Road, Edinburgh EH12 8NJ, UK
- FAX: +44-131 244 8940
- Email: Stuart.Carnegie@sasa.gsi.gov.uk
- Expertise : variety characterization, documentation
- Role : management database for variety collections (group A), evaluation, virus eradication.
- Home page: www.sasa.gov.uk/
- On-line database
- Contact person database: Heather.Campbell@sasa.gsi.gov.uk
- FAO institute code: GBR165
- Participant 6
- Name and address: G. Ramsay, The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
The former Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) merged with the Aberdeen’s Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
to become the James Hutton Institute in spring 2011.
- FAX: +44-1382 562 426
- Email: gavin.ramsay@hutton.ac.uk
- Expertise : genebank management, documentation
- Role: regeneration, evaluation
- Home page: germinate.scri.sari.ac.uk/germinate_cpc/app/
- FAO institute code: GBR048
- Participant 7
- Name and address: M. Lennartsson and R. Manchett (changed position), Garden Organic
(HDRA = Henry Doubleday Research Association), Ryton on Dunsmore, Coventry CV8 3LG, UK
- FAX: +44-2476 639229
- Email: psumption@hdra.org.uk
or MLennartsson@hdra.org.uk
- Expertise : ecological production systems
- Role: on field evaluation
- Home page: www.gardenorganic.org.uk/
- FAO institute code: GBR017
- Participant 8
- Name and address: H.W. Kehoe (retired), The Agricultural and Food Development Authority,
Oak Park Research Centre, Carlow, Ireland
Successor: Denis Griffin.
- FAX: +353-503 42423
- Email: denis.griffin@teagasc.ie
- Expertise : potato breeding
- Role: virus eradication
- Home page: www.teagasc.ie/
- FAO institute code: IRL001
- Participant 9 (sub-coordinator NGO's)
- Name and address: K. Schüler (retired), Institute of Plant Genetics and
Crop Plant Research (IPK), Genbank Außenstelle Nord, Parkweg 3a, 18190 Groß Lüsewitz, Germany
Successor: Klaus Dehmer.
- TEL: +49-38209 80525
- FAX: +49-38209 82313
- Email:
glksmv@t-online.de
- Expertise : genebank management, variety characterization
- Role: regeneration, virus eradication, evaluation
- Home page: www.ipk-gatersleben.de/
- Information system: gbis.ipk-gatersleben.de/gbis_i/
- Related page: variety collection (in German): www.genres.de/eva/kartoffel.htm, unfortunately site now offline.
- FAO institute code: DEU159
- Participant 10
- Name and address: G. Mix-Wagner (retired), Federal Research Centre of Agriculture
Braunschweig-Völkenrode (FAL), Institute of Crop and Grassland Sciences,
Bundesallee 50, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
2008 the German Federal agricultural research institutes were completely reshuffled.
The instute was rename into: Institute of Crop and Soil Science and is now part of the Julius Kühn-Institut
(JKI),
the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, with headquarters in Quedlinburg.
Other FAL institutes became part of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (vTI),
Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei.
- FAX: +49-531 596 2199
- Expertise : biotechnology
- Role: cryo-preservation
- Home page: Institute of Crop and Soil Science
- FAO institute code: DEU001
2003 Germany merged it's two genebanks and the cultivated potato collection moved from the FAL to IPK.
- For cryo preservation activities now contact: Dr. J. Keller, Institute of Plant Genetics and
Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
- FAX: +49-39482 5286
- Email: keller@ipk-gatersleben.de
- Home page: www.ipk-gatersleben.de/
- FAO institute code: DEU159
- Participant 11
- Name and address: R. Vögel, Landesumweltamt Brandenburg Abt. Großschutzgebiete,
Tramper Chaussee 2 / Hs. 7, 16225 Eberswalde, Germany
- FAX: +49-3334 66 2650
- Email: Rudi.Voegel@lua.brandenburg.de
- Expertise : ecological production systems in nature protection areas
- Role: on field evaluation, coordination, training
In 2 biosphere reserves and 1 nature reserve (announced biosphere reserve) the following 3 NGO's
are involved (coordinated by LAGS):
- Elbe River: Landschaftspflege GmbH, MTS-Siedlung, Lenzen
- Spreewald: Verein Kräutergarten Burg e.V., Burg
- Schorfheide-Chorin: Verein zur Erhaltung und Rekultivierung von Nutzpflanzen e.V., Greiffenberg
Home page: www.vern.de
- Participant 12
- Name and address: Christoph Schauer (& P. Zipser), Arche Noah,
Schaugarten GmbH, Obere Straße 40, 3553 Schiltern, Austria
- FAX: +43-2734 8627 (/8612)
- Email: info@arche-noah.at
- Expertise : ecological production systems
- Role: on field evaluation
- Home page: www.arche-noah.at
- FAO institute code: AUT046
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ECPGR sponsored partners
The European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
(ECPGR)
has supported 5 East European institutes to be partners of the project.
They contributed with complementary activities: made available the data of their
potato collections (to be included in the central database), carried out evaluations and
cleaned up several virus infected varieties.
- Name and address: Ms Ing. Jaroslava Domkárová, Potato Research
Institute, Dobrovského 2366, 580 01 Havlíckuv Brod, Czech Republic
FAX: +420-451 21578
Email: domkarova@vubhb.cz
Expertise : in-vitro cultivation
Role: virus cleaning, evaluation
Potato collection page:
genbank.vurv.cz/genetic/resources/
homepage institute: www.vubhb.cz
femtech interview (page 16-17):
Ms Domkárová
FAO institute code: CZE027
- Name and address: Dr Zsolt Polgar, Potato Research Centre, Georgikon Faculty of Agriculture,
University of Veszprem, Festetics Gy. u. 7, H - 8361 Keszthely, Hungary.
Till 1999, this faculty was part of the the Pannon University of Agricultural Sciences.
FAX: +36-83 311231
Email: polg-zs@georgikon.hu
Expertise: breeding
Role: evaluation, virus cleaning
Home page: Georgikon Faculty of Agriculture
FAO institute code: HUN052
- Name and address: Dr. Ewa Zimnoch-Guzowska,
Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR),
Mlochów Research Center, 05-832 Rozalin, Poland
FAX: +48-22 7299247
Email: e.zimnoch-guzowska@ihar.edu.pl
Expertise: breeding
Role: evaluation, virus cleaning
Web site Polish genebank
including catalogues of the potato collection.
FAO institute code: POL047
- Name and address: Dr Anatoliy A. Podgaetskiy, Ukrainian Institute for Potato Research, Academy
of Agricultural Sciences, 22 Chkalov Str., Nemeshaevo, Borodyanka district, 07853 Kiev region, Ukraine
FAX: +380-4477 41542
Email: upri@visti.com
Expertise: breeding
Role: evaluation
FAO institute code: UKR026
- Name and address: Dr. Stepan Kiru, N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry,
44 Bolshaya Morskaya str., 190000 St. Petersburg, Russia
FAX: +7-812 3118762
Email: stepan_kiru@imail.ru
Expertise: genebank management, documentation
Role: characterization, evaluation
Home page: vir.nw.ru
FAO institute code: RUS001
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Observers
- Name and address: Mr. George Murvanidze, ACDI/VOCA, Shrosha St. 4, Tbilisi 380079, Georgia
FAX: +995-32-251 096
Email: gogiac@access.sanet.ge
- Name and address: Mr. Noel Azzopardi,
Block D, Agricultural Res. & Dev. Center, Ghammieri, Marsa, Malta
FAX: +356-442587
Email: noel.azzopardi@magnet.mt
- Ireland's National Potato Collection
Name and address: Gerry Doherty, (Plant Genetic Resources), Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine,
Tops Potato Centre, Raphoe, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Email: gerry.doherty@agriculture.gov.ie
Home page: Tops Potato Centre
comprising over 400 accessions. 2008 publication: Potato
Varieties of Historical Interest in Ireland
Genetic Resources contacts page: contacts
FAO institute code: IRL012
- Name and address: Dr. David Levy, Ministry of Agriculture, Agric. Research Organization,
The Volcani Center, Institute of Field and Garden Crops, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 50-250, Israel
FAX: +972-3-9669642
Email: vcarie@volcani.agri.gov.il
FAO institute code: ISR013
- Name and address: Luca Lovatti, Centro Interprovinciale di Sperimentazione Agroambientale
(CISA) Mario Neri, Via Emillia Levante 18, 40026 Imola (BO), Italy
Email: mneri@crpv.it
FAX: +39-542 609124
- Name and address: Dr. Paolo Ranalli, Istituto Sperimentale per le Colture Industriali,
Via di Corticella 133, 40128 - Bologna, Italy
FAX: +39-051-631 6847
Email: ranalli@bo.nettuno.it
Home page: www.isci.it/
FAO institute code: ITA054
- Name and address: Lorenzo Maggioni, Biodiversity International,
Via dei Tre Denari 472/a, 00057 Maccarese (Fiumicino), Rome, Italy
FAX: +39-06 61979661
Email: l.maggioni@cgiar.org
Role: ECPGR coordinator
Home page ECPGR: www.ecpgr.cgiar.org
Home page Bioversity International (former IPGRI): www.bioversityinternational.org
IPGRI/FAO Multicrop Passport Descriptorlist: www.bioversityinternational.org/publications/pubfile.asp?id_pub=124
- Name and address: Ing. Milan Toma, Potato Research and Breeding Institute,
Popradská 518, 059 52 Velká Lomnica, Slovakia
FAX: +421-968 61254
Email: toma@kk.sinet.sk
FAO institute code: SVK006
- Name and address: Dr. Enrique Ritter Azpitarte,
Dpto. Producción y Protección Vegetal,
NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario,
Apdo. 46, 01080 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
FAX: +34-945 281422
Email: eritter@neiker.net
Home page : www.neiker.net
Expertise: breeding
FAO institute code: ESP016
FAO institute codes were included as far known. They can be searched at:
FAO/WIEWS, under PGR-tab select: Institutes.
The general goals of the EU-project are being continued by the ECPGR Potato Working Group (Hoekstra et al., 2001).
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Last updated 6/1/2013 by Roel Hoekstra.
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