Welcome to UKPGRG
The Group serves as the technical forum for ex-situ plant genetic resources in the UK. The broad membership includes both curators of plant genetic resource centres and representatives from non-governmental organisation and commercial plant breeding sectors. Botanic gardens, the Forestry Commission and statutory collections are also represented as are institutions involved in training in plant genetic resources. The Group provides advice and technical support to Government Departments on technical and policy matters which relate to the UK or the UK's international role in the area of plant genetic resources and ex-situ collections.Member centres of the UKPGRG
- Plant Environment Laboratory and the Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics
- The Genetic Resources Unit of Warwick HRI
- Genetic Resources Unit - Germplasm Collections, John Innes Centre
- Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
- HDRA - the organic organisation, Heritage Seed Library
- DEFRA's National Fruit Collections
- National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens
- Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre
- Millennium Seed Bank Project, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst Place
- Taught courses in genetic resources at the University of Birmingham
- BGCI (Botanic Gardens Conservation International)
- Commonwealth Potato Collection
Selected Links:
- UK Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- DEFRA: Genetic Resources
- DEFRA: Plants and Seeds
- Natural History Museum - native flora by postcode database search
- Plants for a future - 'resource for edible and other useful plants'
- Species 2000 - Catalogue of life indexing the worlds known species
- European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN)
- The Eden project
- IPGRI - International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
- ILDIS - International Legume Database & Information Service
- Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History
- Internet Directory of Botany.
- Centre for Genetic Resources, The Netherlands
- CoLib Project>
- Cornell Biodiversity and Biological Collections
- The Cyber-Plantsman
- Finnish Forest Research Institute
- The Garden Spider's Web
- GRIN WWW server
- Harvard University Herbaria
- IOPI
- International Organization of Palaeobotany
- Information Centre for Genetic Resources (IGR), ZADI
- Maize Genetics Cooperation
- Maize Genetics and Genomics Database
- North American Plant Preservation Council
- Plant Genome Server a link to many plant databases
- USDA Plants National Database
- Plant Taxonomists On-line (PTO)
