10 years of Fruit Gene Bank at Dresden-Pillnitz under federal responsibility

Abstract

Based on the recommendation of the scientific council and the common decision of the former Federal Ministries of Science and Technology as well as Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture the Fruit gene bank was incorpo­rated into the Fruit Breeding Institute at Dresden-Pillnitz from January 1^st, 2003. In the last ten years the Fruit gene bank has been developed at the international and national level as a partner for science and practice. The gene bank is tightly integrated into the national decentralized network of the German Fruit Gene Bank as a collection holding partner. The close networking between management of fruit gene­tic resources, its utilization in the frame of breeding research, and exploitation in fruit specific breeding programs are the best precondition to solve present and future tasks of fruit breeding at Dresden-Pillnitz. Summarizing ten years, the conservation strategies of the gene bank, the results of evaluation and the utilization of fruit genetic resources will be presented.

DOI: 10.5073/JfK.2014.04.01, https://doi.org/10.5073/JfK.2014.04.01