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:
and some institutions follow the project as observers.
Participants
Participant 1 (coordinator)
Name and address: R. Hoekstra, Wageningen University & Research,
Centre for Genetic Resources the Netherlands (CGN), P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
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
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
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).
Name and address: S.F. Carnegie (retired), Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA; formerly: Scottish Agricultural Science Agency),
East Craigs, Roddinglaw Road, Edinburgh EH12 8NJ, UK
Name and address: G. Ramsay (changed position end 2014), 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.
Current contact CPC collection: Gaynor McKenzie
Name and address: M. Lennartsson and R. Manchett (changed position), Garden Organic
(HDRA = Henry Doubleday Research Association), Ryton on Dunsmore, Coventry CV8 3LG, UK
Name and address: H.W. Kehoe (retired), The Agricultural and Food Development Authority,
Oak Park Research Centre, Carlow, Ireland
Successor: Denis Griffin
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
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.
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
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):
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
Website Czech genebank using Grin-Global
homepage institute: www.vurv.cz 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
Website Polish genebank 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: s.kiru@vir.nw.ru Expertise: genebank management, documentation
Role: characterization, evaluation
Home page: www.vir.nw.ru FAO institute code: RUS001
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: CREA. Previously www.isci.it
FAO institute code: ITA054
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 downloaded from:
FAO/WIEWS/background/.
Under the Data tab you can search for accessions worldwide.
On the old Wiews website the codes can be searched:
FAO/WIEWS-archive, 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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