Promoting a Plant Genetic Resource Community for Europe

植物是所有食品、饲料和可再生生物能源生产的基础，对于从化石经济向生物经济的过渡至关重要。植物遗传资源(PGR)在确保这一过渡以及粮食安全和气候缓解方面发挥着关键作用。欧洲及其联系国的410个研究所“异地”保存了200多万份植物材料，并将其列入欧洲国际农业综合组织数据库；在欧洲农田和野生生境中“原地”发现了更多的多样性，这对农业抗灾能力和气候缓解作出了重大贡献。关于“非原位”材料的详细信息充其量是零散的，而“原位”材料几乎不存在。由于“迁地”基础设施和管理、气候变化、栖息地丧失以及入侵/外来物种等方面的限制，这些资源中的相当一部分可能在未来十年内丧失。欧洲研究基础设施战略论坛(ESFRI)2016年的路线图确定了“工厂设施-释放绿色电力”领域的一个明显差距，即缺乏专门用于PGR的欧洲研究基础设施(RI)。PRO-GRACE将采取第一步来填补这一空白，通过发展一个致力于保护和研究PGR的新型(RI)的概念。这一概念将描述拟议的国际扶轮的拟议分布式结构、治理、经济计划和科学服务，并将成为下一次ESFRI召集的全面提案的基础。如果实施，这一新的国际机构将致力于编目、描述、保护和加强欧洲植物农业生物多样性，并将结果转化为保护实践和农业创新，并将与致力于植物遗传资源的全球组织和其他在互补领域工作的现有ESFRI国际机构合作。(例如长生不老药、Emphasys、DISSCO、LifeWatch、Mirri)。

Plants are the basis of all food, feed and renewable bioenergy production and are essential for the transition from a fossil-based to a bio-based economy. Plant Genetic Resources (PGR) play a key role in ensuring this transition, as well as food security and climate mitigation. More than 2 million plant accessions are preserved “ex situ” in 410 institutes in Europe and associated countries and listed in the EURISCO database; even more diversity is found “in situ” in European farmlands and wild habitats, where it contributes significantly to agricultural resilience and climate mitigation. Detailed information on “ex situ” accessions is, at best, fragmentary, while for “in situ” accessions it is almost non-existent. A considerable part of these resources could be lost over the coming decade due to limitations in the “ex-situ” infrastructure and management, climate change, habitat loss, and invasive/alien species. The roadmap 2016 of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) identifies a clear gap in the sector “Plant facilities – unlocking green power”, i.e. the lack of a European Research Infrastructure (RI) specifically dedicated to PGRs. PRO-GRACE will undertake the first step to fill this this gap, by developing the concept of a novel (RI) dedicated to the conservation and study of PGRs. The concept will describe the proposed distributed structure, governance, economic plan and scientific services of the proposed RI, and will be the basis for a full proposal at the next ESFRI call. If implemented, this new RI will aim to catalog, describe, preserve and enhance European plant agrobiodiversity, and translate the results into conservation practices and agricultural innovation, and will collaborate with global organizations dedicated to Plant Genetic Resources and with other established ESFRI RIs working on complementary fields. (eg ELIXIR, EMPHASYS, DISSCO, LIFEWATCH, MIRRI).