DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Preservation of genetic resources
ELGO-DIMITRA maintains more than 21,000 access codes of plant genetic resources
It also maintains the reference collections of National Catalogue varieties and more specifically, more than 1,000 varieties of forage, industrial, cereal, horticultural, various tree, and vine varieties.
ELGO-DIMITRA, as the custodian of the country's plant genetic resources, maintains in the Genetic Material Bank, in the Balkan Botanical Garden and in the collections of the Institutes more than 21,000 access codes of plant genetic resources from domestic traditional varieties and wild relatives of cultivated species, endangered endemic Greek aromatic medicinal plants and forest plants.
It also maintains the reference collections of National Catalogue varieties and more specifically, more than 1,000 varieties of forage, industrial, cereal, horticultural, various tree, and vine varieties.
Finally, breeds of productive animals (sheep of Chios, Florina-Pelagonia, Sfakia), bees and microbial resources related to food and the environment are kept in the facilities of the Agency's institutes.
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Institutes all over Greece
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Research Programs
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Specialized Investigators
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National collections of plant genetic resources