Seed Collections
What crops do we work with? The UK Vegetable Genebank collections encompass a wide range of small-seeded, mainly outbreeding vegetables (current/obsolete cultivars and landraces) and associated wild taxa including:- |
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Allium |
onion, leek, Welsh leek and wild taxa |
Apium |
celery and celeriac |
Brassica oleracea |
broccoli, Brussels sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, kale & kohl rabi |
Brassica napus |
horticultural & fodder forms (kale & swede) |
Brassica rapa |
horticultural & fodder forms (Chinese cabbage, broccoletto & turnip) |
Brassica juncea |
horticultural & fodder (leaf mustards) |
Daucus |
carrot and wild taxa |
Lactuca |
lettuce and wild taxa |
Raphanus |
radish and wild taxa |
various other minor vegetables and salad crops | |
You can see a list of our material in the EURISCO database. EURISCO contains information on the holdings of genebanks across Europe; material held by the UK Vegetable Genebank has the 'Institute Identifier' of GBR006
UK Vegetable Genebank accessions are also listed in the relevant ECPGR Central Cop Databases (Brassica, Leafy Vegetables, Solanaceae, Umbellifer and Allium)
In addition we distribute two reference collections, the Brassica S-allele collection and the European Clubroot Differential set.
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