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1 Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences GENETIC RESOURCES INSTITUTE Mirzaliyeva ILHAMA Documentation officer of the National Genbank Azerbaijan, Baku 01-Jun-15 1

2 Genetic Resources Institute structure 01-Jun-15 2

3 Activities on PGR National Program on inventory (ex situ, in situ / on-farm) National law on PGR (was signed 2011) National Genbank National Network on PGR Documentation Coordination with republic Scientific Institutes related with PGR Scientific Technical Committee Well equipped Laboratories 01-Jun-15 3

4 PGR coordination Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture Vegetable-growing Institute Horticulture and Subtropical Crops Institute Cottongrowing Institute Genetic Resources Institute Central Database of National Genbank SR Institute of Viticulture and Wine-Making Institute of Botany Forage Institute pastures, meadows Botanical Garden 01-Jun-15 4

5 Contact persons - network members in each institutes Contact persons and WGs are connecting parts in coordinating of GRI activities The Scientific Technical Committee included into management system on conservation and effective use of Cultivated plants Genetic Resources created on the basis of decision of the Cabinet Ministers of AR has great importance in fulfilment of the Institute coordinating activities 01-Jun-15 5

6 For the formation of Scientific Technical Committee, included into the management system on conservation and effective use of crop plant genetic resources and creation within it specialized expert councils and working groups (on cereals-leguminous, fruits and subtropical plants, vegetable & melon, industrial plants, forages, aromatic & medicinal plants) on priority activities have been used the ECPGR practices, the methodical supports of its authorities and also consultations with national coordinators of countries. 01-Jun-15 6

7 Institutes and their collection Institutes Plants Number of accession in NDB 1. Genetic Resources Institute All plants SR Institute of Agriculture Cereals, grain legumes, forage legumes SR Institute of Vegetable- Vegetable-melon crops, green vegetables, Growing spicy crops and potato 4. SR Institute of Horticulture and Pomegranate and stone fruits, nuts, Subtropical crops subtropical fruits, citrus and berry crops and their wild relatives 5. SR Institute of Viticulture and Cultivated and wild grapevine Wine-Making 6. SR Institute of Fodder, Grasses and forage legumes Meadows and Pastures 7. SR Institute of Cotton Growing Cultural and wild types of cotton 8. Research Institute of Botany and National Botany Garden 10. Azerbaijan State Agricultural Academy Woody-bush and grassy plants, medicinal & untraditional plants Herbaria Vegetable-melon crops, green vegetables 01-Jun

8 Documentation NI databases Excel spreadsheet EURISCO Database on MS FoxPro MS FoxPro version has data on botanical, ecological, geographical, seed stock information Database on MySQL 01-Jun-15 8

9 Database view on MS FoxPro 01-Jun-15 9

10 Database view on MS FoxPro 01-Jun-15 10

11 Database view on MS FoxPro 01-Jun-15 11

12 Database view on MySQL 01-Jun-15 12

13 Database view on MySQL 01-Jun-15 13

14 Entering dynamic of seeds to National Genbank

15 Families with large amount of accessions 01-Jun-15 15

16 Azerbaijan National Genbank Genbank has begun its activities since 2004 as a sub group of GRI In 2011 after the acceptance the law Conservation and effective utilization of genetic resources of cultural plants by the Azerbaijan Parliament, Genbank has received the status of national especially protected object with the following research departments: Seed collection and regeneration departments, Evaluation departments, Protection and conservation departments All accessions get new numbers with prefix AzGR (Azerbaijan Genetic Resource) is in front of sequential number

17 Crops groups Number of accessions in CDB Cereals 4338 Food-Legumes 1204 Vegetables-melons 859 Technical plants 1570 Medicinal 782 Fruit and fruit-berry 2411 Fodder 734 Total Jun-15 17

18 Status Number Wild relatives 2056 Traditional varieties 2365 Breeding and research material 3025 Advanced/improved cultivar 4452 Total Advanced/improved cultivar 37% Wild relatives 17% Breeding and research material 26% Traditional varieties 20% 01-Jun-15 18

19 Taxonomy features at CDB and Genbank CDB Genbank Family Genus Species Subtaxa Family Genus Species Subtaxa CDB Genbank Jun-15 19

20 Wheat characterization data 01-Jun-15 20

21 Chickpea characterization data 01-Jun-15 21

22 Chickpea characterization data 01-Jun-15 22

23 Sending accessions to Svalbard Global Seed Vault Barley Durum wheat Sorghum Grass pea Bean Lentil Bread wheat Chickpea Maize Horse bean Cowpea N Accessions Number of accessions 1. Grass pea Lathyrus sativus L. 2. Phaseolus vulgaris L. Common bean 3. Lens culinaris Medic. Lentil 4. Cicer arietinum L. Chickpea 5. Maize Zea mays L. 6. Vicia faba L. Horse bean 7. Cowpea Vigna unungiucullata (L.)Walp. 8. Bread wheat Triticum aestivum L. 9. Durum wheat Triticum durum Desf. 10. Barley Hordeum vulgare L. 25 ICARDA 73 CIAT 40 ICARDA 65 ICRISAT Safety Duplicate organizations 200 CIMMYT 14 ICARDA 20 IITA 369 ICARDA 510 ICARDA 194 ICARDA 11. Sorghum 11 ICRISAT Sorghum bicolor (L.)Moench Total Jun-15 23

24 Seed collection and regeneration departments

25 Protection and conservation departments

26 Genotyping laboratory Genotyping of National Genbank materials using molecular markers are being conducted at this laboratory 01-Jun-15 26

27 Sequencing laboratory Genotyping by sequencing Whole transcriptome sequencing Genome sequencing Viral typing 01-Jun-15 27

28 Our near future plans on PGR documentation Creation of characterization and evaluation database To create web-based information system on Azerbaijan PGR and put to institute s website We are preparing the new proposal on creation of characterization, evaluation and genomics Database of National Genbank for submitting to STCU 01-Jun-15 28

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30 THANK YOU 01-Jun-15 30

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