Find here the main documentation - the National Inventory of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in Austria. This database contains comprehensive infor-mation about ex situ collections of Austrian genebanks.
GENBANK.AT provides access to Passport Data e.g. accession (variety) name, accession number, maintaining institute and country of origin for each accession. Additional information about Characterization Data and photos is partly available.
ECPGR Vigna Database
International Year of Biodiversity
The continued loss of biodiversity will result in a rapid decline of the Earth’s natural wealth and a dramatic reduction of future ecosystem services. Agricultural production will dramatically decrease if bacteria and fungi, which make soil fertile and breakdown wastes disappear. With 42% of anti-cancer drugs coming from natural sources, biodiversity loss will force us to face unprecedented challenges.
We are losing both the beauty and richness of our natural environment as well as destabilising the very ecological processes on which we depend. There can be no life on Earth without biodiversity.
