The Nordic Gene Bank Regional cooperation, for the DanBIF network meeting 9th December 2004, Århus University. Dag Endresen (Nordic Gene Bank). DanBIF is the Danish GBIF node. GBIF is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, http://gbif.org
9. 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.
11. 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. The main purpose of SESTO is management of the plant material in the genebank seedstore .
12. SESTO [ http://www.ngb.se/sesto/] A regional genebank documentation system 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 the individual genebank institute.
13. SESTO [ http://www.ngb.se/sesto/] A regional genebank documentation system The genebanks included in SESTO share data like the taxonomic species database and the common picture archive.
16. International cooperation NGB is involved in extensive international cooperation on genebank documentation. The main focus is transfer of knowledge and technology. Southern Africa, SADC region. NGB is technical consultant and has provided training in genebank management skills for students from the Southern Africa region (SADC) since 1988. East Africa, EAPGREN NGB contributes as technical consultant for the Eastern Africa Plant Genetic Resources Network (EAPGREN). Documentation activities are planned to start in 2005. Europe NGB is a central participant in the development of genebank documentation strategies and solutions for Europe. Most of the work is organized through the ECP/GR network. NGB was a partner in the EPGRIS project (2000-2003) financed from EU.
In addition to a herbarium (approx. 400,000 samples), IPK has more reference collections: Spike collection (for cereals) Seed collections (for many large-seeded crops, including legumes, cereals) Fruit collections (in alcohol) Photographs, drawings
At present (2004 December) there are 7 individual dataset in SESTO: NGB, Estonian NI, Latvian NI, Norwegian NI, Jogeva PBI, SADC PGR Network, ECPGR Forage grasses ECCDB
The COMECON descriptor list came earlier than Multi-Crop, it was the result of a cooperation of the Eastern European Genebanks in PGR documentation.