• Code
    INIA-CRF-ACTIVA
  • Registration date
    02-12-2022
  • Publication date
    19-12-2022
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Description

The mission of the CRF is to contribute to preserve and sustainably use of plant genetic diversity. Thus, the CRF conserves and uses landraces, crop wild relatives, obsolete commercial varieties and other species that are no-longer-used but which have genetic potential value for food and agriculture, making available the heritage of Spanish agrobiodiversity, which is key for Agofood Innovation as well as for the fulfillment of the environmental objectives of sustainable development. One of the mains CRF’s functions is the Conservation and Characterization of an important part of this diversity such are the ACTIVE COLLECTION, that includes CEREALS (wheat, barley, rye, avena, corn…), GRAIN LEGUMES (chickpea, lentils, vetch, common bean…) and some INDUSTRIAL CROPS (sunflower, cotton…).

Overall information
Goals

Conserve the active collections in optimal conservation conditions to be used for their characterization and evaluation in the CRF itself and/or by other institutions interested in the study of this diversity Facilitate it use of other researchers and material developers for their studies and improvement programmes Providing materials to farmers/collectives interested in the recovery of traditional varieties. To improve the conservation, characterization and evaluation systems of our collections by applying the results of the research we carry out, both at the CRF and at other collaborating institutions.

Strengths

We have available the most important Spanish seed collections of winter cereals, grain legumes and industrial crops, keeping in conditions that allow their long-term maintenance. The collections are documented with passport data information and, in some cases, are characterized agro/morphologically, with biochemical and molecular markers. Our research lines are focus germplasm conservation and with the evaluation of conserved materials. We have adequate facilities for the purpose to be fulfilled, including laboratories, conservation chambers and experimental farm. The team responsible for the collections has extensive experience in the field and is highly motivated to carry out this work.

Taxonomic coverage
Scientific names

CRF's active collection includes accessions belonging to 417 different taxa.

Geospatial coverage

CRF's active collection includes accessions collected in 102 different countries.

Temporal location
Temporal coverage

From 01/01/1977 to 01/03/13

Datasets of the collection/database
Types of objects

Seeds

Digitalization
Nº of copies / records

22.626

Nº of species

249

Percentage of georeferenced registers

62%

Does it include Type specimens?

No

Map of Specimens
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Related Resources
Publications
  • The publicaciones most relevant publications for the period 2017-2022 are shown below. For more information, visit: https://bancocrf.inia.es/es/publications https://webx.inia.es//web_inventario_nacional/Publicaciones.asp
  • Eastwood, R. J., Tambam, B. B., Aboagye, L. M., Akparov, Z. I., Aladele, S. E., Allen, R., ...De la Rosa, L… & Kilian, B. 2022. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents. Plants, 11(14), 1840.
  • De la Rosa L. 2022. INIA-CRF (CSIC) Plant genetic resources for agriculture and food base- collection. Version 1.1. INIA. Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos (CSIC). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15470/lpai7b accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-11-29.
  • De la Rosa L. 2022. INIA-CRF (CSIC) Plant genetic resources for agriculture and food active collection. Version 1.1. INIA. Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos (CSIC). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15470/xtpggq accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-11-2.
  • Martínez-Moreno F, Giraldo P, Nieto C, Ruiz M. 2022. Resistance to Leaf and Yellow Rust in a Collection of Spanish bread Wheat Landraces and Association with Ecogeographical Variable. Agronomy: 12-187. DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12010187
  • Rocchetti, L., Gioia, T., Logozzo, G., Brezeanu, C., Pereira, L. G., De la Rosa, L.., ... & Papa, R. 2022. Towards the Development, Maintenance and Standardized Phenotypic Characterization of Single‐Seed‐Descent Genetic Resources for Chickpea. Current Protocols 2 : 371-. DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.371
  • Bellucci, E., Aguilar, O. M., Alseekh, S., Bett, K., Brezeanu, C., Cook, D., De la Rosa, L ... & Papa, R. 2021. The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food‐legume genetic resources for European agrofood systems. Plant Journal, 108(3), 646-660. DOI: 10-1111/tpj.15472
  • De la Rosa, L., López-Román, M. I., González, J. M., Zambrana, E., Marcos-Prado, T., & Ramírez-Parra, E. 2021. Common vetch, valuable germplasm for resilient agriculture: genetic characterization and Spanish core collection development. Frontiers in plant science, 12, 282. DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-2267-z
  • González, J.M., Cañas, R., Cabeza, A., Ruiz, M., Giraldo, P., Loarce, Y. 2021. Study of variability in root system architecture of Spanish Triticum turgidum L. subspecies and analysis of the presence of a MITE element inserted in the TtDro1B gene: evolutionary implications. Agronomy 11, 2294. DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11112294
  • Kroc, M., Tomaszewska, M., Czepiel, K., Bitocchi, E., Oppermann, M., Neumann, K, Guasch, L., Belucci, E., Alseekh,S.,& Susek, K. 2021. Towards Development, Maintenance, and Standardized Phenotypic Characterization of Single‐Seed‐Descent Genetic Resources for Lupins. Current Protocols, 1(7), e191. DOI:10.1002/cpz1.191
  • López-Fernández M., Pascual L., Faci I., Fernández M., Ruiz M., Benavente E., Giraldo P. 2021. Exploring the end-use quality potential of a collection of Spanish bread wheat landraces. Plants 10, 620. DOI: 10.3390/plants10040620
  • Martínez-Moreno, F., Giraldo, P., Cátedra, MM., Ruiz, M. 2021. Evaluation of leaf rust resistance in the Spanish core collection of tetraploid wheat landraces and association with ecogeographical variables. Agriculture 11(4), 277 DOI: 10.3390/agriculture11040277
  • Ruiz M., Giraldo P. 2021. The influence of allelic variability of prolamins on gluten quality in durum wheat: An overview. Journal of Cereal Science 101, 103304. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2021.103304
  • Pascual L, Fernández M, Aparicio N, López-Fernández M, Fité R, Giraldo P, Ruiz M. 2020. Development of a Multipurpose Core Collection of Bread Wheat Based on High-Throughput Genotyping Data. Agronomy 10 (4), 534. : DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10040534
  • Pascual, L., Ruiz, M., López-Fernández, M., Pérez-Peña, H., Benavente, E., Vázquez, J. F., ... & Giraldo, P. 2020. Genomic analysis of Spanish wheat landraces reveals their variability and potential for breeding. BMC genomics, 21(1), 1-17.
  • De la Rosa, L, Zambrana, E, Ramirez-Parra E. 2020. Molecular bases for drought tolerance in common vetch: designing new molecular breeding tools. BMC Plant Biology 20 : 1-18. DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-2267-z
  • Ruiz, M.; Zambrana, E.; Fite, R.; Sole, A.; Tenorio, J.L.; Benavente, E. 2019 Yield and Quality Performance of Traditional and Improved Bread and Durum Wheat Varieties under Two Conservation Tillage Systems. Sustainability , 11, 4522. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11174522
  • Rubio-Teso, ML., Torres Lamas, E., Parra-Quijano, M., De la Rosa, L., Fajardo, J., Iriondo, JM. 2018. National inventory and prioritization of crop wild relatives in Spain. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 65 (4), 1237-1253. DOI: 10.1007/s10722-018-0610-0.
  • Díez, MJ., De la Rosa, L., Martín, I., Guasch, L., Cartea, ME., Mallor, C., Casals, J., Simó, J., Rivera, A., Anastasio, G., Prohens, J., Soler, S., Blanca, J., Valcárcel, JV., Casañas, F. 2018. Plant Genebanks: Present situation and proposals for their improvement. The case of the Spanish Network. Frontiers in Plant Science 9, 1794. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01794.
  • Ruiz, M., Bernal, G., Giraldo, P. 2018. An update of low molecular weight glutenin subunits in durum wheat relevant to breeding for quality. Journal of Cereal Science 83, 236-244. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2018.09.005.
  • Ruiz, M., Giraldo, P., González, JM. 2018. Phenotypic variation in root architecture traits and their relationship with eco-geographical and agronomic features in a core collection of tetraploid wheat landraces (Triticum turgidum L.). Euphytica 214 (3), 54. DOI: 10.1007/s10681-018-2133-3.
  • García RM, Parra-Quijano M, Iriondo JM. 2017. Identification of ecogeographical gaps in the Spanish Aegilops collections with potential tolerance to drought and salinity. Peer J. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3494
  • García RM, Parra-Quijano M, Iriondo JM. 2017. A multispecies collecting strategy for crop wild relatives based on complementary areas with a high density of ecogeographical gaps. Crop Science 57:1059-1069. doi: 10.2135/cropsci2016.10.0860
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