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Biological Resource Center

Biological Resource Center

Studying and managing biodiversity in agricultural settings requires genetic ressources of animals, plants and microorganisms. To assure their conservation and utilization, these multiple actors have to be taken into account, including their functionality and their interactions. Managing these biological ressources involves their preservation but also their characterization and evaluation, as well as their dissemination. These are the reasons why a Biological Resource Center including different types of plant and microbial resources was created in Dijon (France). Its objectives are to promote technical aspects of organism preservation, to improve identification and characterization tools and to maintain databases assembling taxonomic and ecological traits of organisms, as well as to provide high-quality germplasm for researchers and industry cooperations. Uniting the four collections in a Biological Resource Center allows to better coordinate common approaches in quality control, for common funding and towards certification

Contact: dirk.redecker@inrae.fr

Four collections are united in the Biological Resource Center::

Weeds

ADVENTICE

The weed collection includes (1) a seed collection (about 800 taxa from more than 60 families) which serves as reference for weed species identification; and (2) a collection of seed lots (around 520 species) used in experiments at the research unit, addressing different biological processes linked to the weed life cycle.

Contact: delphine.moreau@inrae.fr

 

 

 Grain Legumes Collection

LEGUMINEUSE

The INRAE-Dijon Grain Legumes Collection harbors more than 11000 accessions, including landraces, mutants and wild types of pea (Pisum spp.), faba bean (Vicia faba), and lupin (Lupinus spp.). These resources characterized genetically and phenotypically, allowing the definition of reference collections and the development of association genetics strategies

Contact: crb.proteagineux@inrae.fr

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi

ibg

The International Bank for the Glomeromycota (IBG) {link: http://www.i-beg.eu} is a structure dedicated to the conservation of the biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi  and the distribution of well-defined isolates.  The IBG in Dijon maintains a base collection of fungal germplasm (45 isolates/250 cultures) on host plants and provides its reference cultures to researchers. On demand, technical training to users is provided.

Contact: ibg@inrae.fr

The MIAE (Microorganisms of Interest for Agriculture and Environment)

MIAE

The MIAE (Microorganisms of Interest for Agriculture and Environment) collection is holding over 10000 soil-borne microbial strains belonging to 48 genera of fungi and oomycetes and 13 genera of bacteria. These microorganisms have been isolated by culturing techniques during 30 years of scientific investigations related to soil functioning. Fungal and bacterial identification is based on chemotaxonomic and/or metabolic properties and on the use of appropriate molecular tools.

Contact: christian.steinberg@inrae.fr

Modification date: 19 August 2024 | Publication date: 17 July 2023 | By: VN