AZERBAIJAN 3
INSTITUTION NAME AND MAIN ADDRESS
COUNTRY Azerbaijan
INSTITUTION NAME “Genetic Resources Institute”
MAIN ADDRESS Genetic Resources Institute, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Mardakan Dendrary; Sergei yesenin 89 mardakan; Baku; AZ1044 (Azerbaijan)
DESCRIPTION
AREA No information available
LATITUDE 40.4841
LONGITUDE 50.1651
INFORMATION ABOUT THE INSTITUTION
STATUS State
INSTITUTION TYPE Genebank
DATE FOUNDED Around 1996
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Grain cereals, legume, fodder, vegetable and melon, technical, fruit-berry, subtropical crops and vine as well wild relatives of the specified crops, herbarium material and microorganisms
TAXA No information available
PROGRAMMES
  • According to the National Program activity continuations of corresponding institutes in the field of collecting, studying, evaluation, preservations and rational use of genetic resources was assigned to the Institute
  • A National Seminar on Training of inventory execution was carried out
  • Exchange programmes
FEATURES AND FACILITIES
  • Sheki zonal scientific base and the Karabakh (770 species of fruitberry plants representing 22 species, i.e. 270 – of folk selection and – 500 forms of wild kin)
  • Laboratories and facilities of a genebank
MAIN DEFICIENCIES No information available
OTHER INFORMATION On the basis of the Genetics and Selection Institute of the National Academy of Sciences the Genetic Resources Institute was created for Centralized Genebank establishment
SOURCES CONSULTED Web:

www.cac-biodiversity.org/aze/aze_biodiversity.htm

www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPS/pgrfa/pdf/AZERBAIJ.PDF

Documents:

“Azerbaijan: Country Report to the FAO. International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources”. (Leipzig 1996)

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