Databases and other beasts in Lund and at Alnarp

SESTO, Nordic Gene Bank

Dag Endresen, NordGen, Alnarp 16 Dec 2010

Different seed containers through the years

Stora Råby1980-1984

Alnarpsince 1984

Smedjevägen 21984-2000

Smedjevägen 3since 2000

Seed store1984-2000

Nordic Gene BankSmedjevägen 21984-2000

1979

Started1981

NGB Budget:

1979: 1.754.100 kr

1982: 1.990.000 kr

1982

NordGen correspondence archive: 8000061

NordGen correspondence archive: 8000059

1982

Svalbard: 1984

Svalbard: 2008

Svalbard Seed Vault by country of origin (status 2010)

Konzak, C.F., and B. Sigurbjörnsson (1966). International cooperation in standardization of procedures in crop research data recording. Fifth Yugoslav Symposium on Research in Wheat. Contemporary Agriculture 11-12, 691-696.

1966:

Sigfus Bjarnason, 1989

BIRS, Biological Retrieval Information System

1999

http://www.ngb.se

1995pcGRIN(USA)

http://sesto.nordgen.org/sesto/

2002

version

2010

version

2010

SESTO installati ons in Balti c and Balkan Europe, Africa, Bhutan, North Korea, Caucasus, ...

SESTO by country of originRed dots are the georeferenced collecting places :: countries colored by ORIGIN of accessions

Collecting places and country of origin

SESTO distribution and georeferenced accessionsRed dots are the georeferenced collecting places :: country cored by accessions DISTRIBUTED

SOURCE versus USE (seed requests)