Promoting a Plant Genetic Resource Community for Europe

植物是所有食物、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过渡至关重要。植物遗传资源（PGR）在确保这一转变以及粮食安全和减缓气候变化方面发挥着关键作用。在欧洲和相关国家的410个研究所“移地”保存了200多万株植物，并列入EURISCO数据库；在欧洲的农田和野生栖息地“就地”发现了更多的多样性，这对农业复原力和减缓气候变化作出了重大贡献。关于“移地”加入的详细资料充其量是零碎的，而关于“原地”加入的详细资料则几乎不存在。由于“移地”基础设施和管理的限制、气候变化、生境丧失和入侵/外来物种，这些资源的相当一部分可能在未来十年失去。欧洲研究基础设施战略论坛（ESFRI）的2016年路线图指出，在“工厂设施-解锁绿色能源”领域存在明显差距，即缺乏专门用于pgr的欧洲研究基础设施（RI）。PRO-GRACE将通过开发致力于pgr保护和研究的新概念（RI）来填补这一空白的第一步。该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会议上完整提案的基础。如果得到实施，这个新的研究所将致力于编目、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以及在互补领域开展工作的其他ESFRI研究所合作。（如ELIXIR，强调，disco， 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).