Feasibility study for a safety back-up cryopreservation facility. Independent expert report: July 2017

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027006%3A_____%2F17%3A00004748" target="_blank" >RIV/00027006:_____/17:00004748 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Feasibility_Acker_2017pdf.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Feasibility_Acker_2017pdf.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Feasibility study for a safety back-up cryopreservation facility. Independent expert report: July 2017

Original language description

The study concludes that a major global initiative is urgently needed to accelerate the development and implementation of crop cryopreservation. The study highlights the advantages of cryopreservation for the long-term conservation of collections of vegetatively propagated and recalcitrant seed crops, but also the challenges faced with its wide-scale implementation. It recommends a collaborative effort among researchers and genebanks that is focused on the specific technical and practical issues hampering the adaptation of cryopreservation protocols to at-risk collections. The study findings indicate that 100,000 unique accessions of the vegetatively propagated and recalcitrant seed crops in Annex 1 of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty) and in Article 15 collections are held in high maintenance, costly and potentially vulnerable field and in vitro genebanks. The study recommends that a safety back-up cryopreservation facility is set up to accommodate the estimated 5,000 to 10,000 accessions arising from current, on-going cryopreservation activities at CGIAR and other genebanks. The importance of the facility being established and operated in accordance with best principles and practice is emphasized. The facility should follow the principles and policies that govern the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and its infrastructure and operations should adhere to established technical standards and practices for low temperature biorepositories.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

H_konc - Results reflected in the approved strategic and conceptual documents of R&D&I bodies of the state or public administration

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40401 - Agricultural biotechnology and food biotechnology

Project

<a href="/en/project/QJ1630301" target="_blank" >QJ1630301: Development of the new biotechnological systems for maintanance and improvment of agriculture crop and forest tree biodiversitsy</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Regulation ID

74519/2018-MZE-17233

Competence designation of competent authority

Bioversity International, Roma, Italy.

Territorial validity of the result

B - Platnost evropská či mezinárodní (předpisy EU, evropské či jiné nadnárodní normy)