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Europe

 

 

 

The Dutch-German Potato Collection

 

Name and address: R. Hoekstra, Centre for Genetic Resources The Netherlands (CGN), P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
FAX: +31-317 418094
Email: roel.hoekstra@wur.nl
Home page: www.cgn.wur.nl/UK/CGN+Plant+Genetic+Resources/Collections/Potato/
FAO institute code: NLD037

The Commonwealth Potato Collection (CPC)

 

Name and address: G. Ramsay, Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
FAX: +44-1382 562 426
Email: g.ramsay@scri.sari.ac.uk
Home page: germinate.scri.sari.ac.uk/germinate_cpc/app/
FAO institute code: GBR048

The Groß Lüsewitz Potato Collecion (GLKS)

 

Name and address: Klaus J. Dehmer, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Genbank Außenstelle Nord, Parkweg 3a, 18190 Groß Lüsewitz, Germany
FAX: +49-38209 82313
Email: glksmv@t-online.de
Home page: glks.ipk-gatersleben.de
Search form: pgrc.ipk-gatersleben.de/potato/
Home page IPK: gbis.ipk-gatersleben.de/gbis_i/
FAO institute code: DEU159

The potato Collection of the Vavilov Institute (VIR)

 

Names and address: Stepan Kiru (cultivated spp.) and Dr. Elena Rogozina (wild spp.), N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR), Department of Potato Genetic Resources, Bolshaya Morskaya Street 42, 190000 St. Petersburg, Russia
FAX: +7-812-3118762
Email: stepan_kiru@imail.ru
Home page: vir.nw.ru.
FAO institute code: RUS001

 

 

Many European potato variety collections are in the participant list of the EU project on potato genetic resources.

 

 

 

 

Americas

 

 

 

The US Potato Genebank (NRSP-6)

 

Name and address: J.B. Bamberg, 4312 Highway 42, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235-9620, USA
FAX: +1-414-743 1080
Email: nr6jb@ars-grin.gov
Related pages: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/site.pl?NR6 on-line search
www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/pcgrin/ downloadable pcgrin databases (download potato.zip)
FAO institute code: USA004

The Potato Collection of the International Potato Center (CIP)

 

Name and address: Dr. David Tay, CIP, Apartado Postal 1558, Lima 12, Peru
FAX: +51-1-317-5326
Email: d.tay@cgiar.org
Home page: www.cipotato.org/
www.singer.cgiar.org/ SINGER: CGIAR System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources
on-line ordering material from CIP
FAO institute code: PER001

The Potato Collection of the University of Cusco

 

Name and address: R. Ortega, CERRGETYR, University of Cusco, P.O. Box 295, Cusco, Peru
Home page University of Cusco: www.unsaac.edu.pe/
FAO institute code: PER091

The Potato Collection of the Proyecto de Investigation de la Papa (PROINPA)

 

Name and address: Ximena Cadima, Coordinadora Recursos Genéticos, Fundación PROINPA, Av. Meneces s/n km 4, Casilla postal 4285, Cochabamba, Bolivia
FAX: +591-4-4360800
Email: x.cadima@proinpa.org
Home page: www.proinpa.org
FAO institute code: BOL038

The Potato Collection of INTA-Balcarce

 

Name and address: A.M. Clausen, INTA-Balcarce, C.C. 276, 7620 Balcarce, Argentina
FAX: +54-266-439101
Email: aclausen@balcarce.inta.gov.ar
Info page: www.inta.gov.ar/balcarce
FAO institute code: ARG009

The Potato Collection of Chile

 

Name and address: Andrés Contreras M., Instituto de Producción y Sanidad Vegetal, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile.
FAX: +56-63-221733
Email: acontrer@uach.cl
Home page: www.uaustral.cl/facultad/agrarias/instituto/prod_sanidad_vegetal/webpapa/
Info page on the collection in Spanish and its english summary.
FAO institute code: CHL003

The Potato Collection of CORPOICA

 

Name and address: G. Ligarreto, Corporacion Colombiana de Investigacion Agropecuaria (CORPOICA), Apartado Aereo 151123, El Dorado, Santafe de Bogota, D.C., Colombia
FAX: +57-1-2673013
Email: gligarreto@corpoica.org.co
Home page: www.corpoica.org.co
Info page (in Spanish)
FAO institute code: COL017

 

 

 

 

Other

 

 

 

www.potgenebank.org

The Inter-genebank Potato Database (incl. data on wild species maintained at CGN, PI, CIP, CPC, IPK-GLKS, BALC, VIR). Site currently down.

RedePapa

A site with great information source on potatoes in South America (in Spanish)

apps3.fao.org/wiews/

Search in the WIEWS-FAO database for ex-situ plant genetic resources collections

Germplasm Collections

Search in the Biodiversity Directory of Germplasm Collections

www.genres.de/

ZADI/IGR: GENRES information system on Genetic Resources

 

 


FAO institute codes were included as far known. They can be searched at: FAO/WIEWS or downloaded.


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