Northern Regional Genebank cooperation, ECP/GR D&I Network meeting at ZADI Bonn Germany 11th April 2005. Dag Endresen (Nordic Gene Bank).

1. Northern Regional Gene Bank cooperation ECP/GR D&I Network meeting April 11, 2005 – ZADI, Bonn Dag Terje Filip Endresen – The Nordic Gene Bank

4. Nordic and Baltic PGR collaboration The Nordic Gene Bank is the centre of a distributed regional network based on working groups with crop experts from all the Nordic countries. The new Nordic and Baltic national programmes on biodiversity are also parts of the network. One of the main priorities for the regional cooperation is development of a common online information platform for plant genetic resources.

6. Nordic and Baltic genebank seed collections Seed storage NGB, Alnarp, Sweden Seed storage (JPBI) Jõgeva, Estonia Seed storage, Salaspils, Latvia Seed storage, Dotnuva, Lithuania

7. Joint activities Forage grasses Dotnuva, Lithuania There has also been some joint activity on regeneration and evaluation of accessions.

8. SESTO [ http://www.ngb.se/sesto/] A regional genebank documentation system Some genebank collections presented in SESTO

9. SESTO [ http://www.ngb.se/sesto/] A regional genebank documentation system SESTO was developed as the NGB documentation system. The application is later expanded to serve the genebanks of the whole region (2003-2005). The main purpose of SESTO is management of the plant material in the genebank seedstore .

10. SESTO [ http://www.ngb.se/sesto/] Remote data update The genebank staff have personal passwords and can edit the online data from the same interface as presented to public visitors. The edit rights are individual corresponding to the relevant responsibilities at each genebank institute.

11. SESTO [ http://www.ngb.se/sesto/] Shared data sets on taxonomy The genebanks included in SESTO share data like for example the taxonomic species database and the common picture archive.

12. SESTO [ http://www.ngb.se/sesto/] Shared data sets with illustrations

13. SESTO [ http://www.ngb.se/sesto/] Shared picture archive © Many of the images included to the picture archive are free to use for any non-commercial, journalistic or private use. The contributors of the individual pictures choose themselves if the image is For genebank use only (1), Free to use for non-commercial purposes (2) or Public domain (3).