Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Researc

The mission of the IPK Gatersleben, a Leibniz Institute, is to conduct basic and applied research in the area of plant genetics and crop plant research. The results of this work are not only of significant benefit to plant breeders and the agricultural industry, but also to the food, feed, and chemical industry. An additional research area, the use of renewable raw materials, is increasingly gaining in importance.

The institute has four academic departments (genebank, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, and molecular cell biology) with the following key research areas:

• diversity research on crop plants,
• dynamics of plant genomes, and
• integrative biology of plant performance.

The IPK houses one of the world's largest gene banks. The inventory of currently ~ 148.000 crop samples is used extensively for research.

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 Seed Savers Network

The Seed Savers' Network has the following charitable and educational purposes in its deeds...

To develop and promote:

• Educational programmes for the preservation of open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds and the genetic diversity of plant varieties;
• Non-profit seed exchange programmes;
• Agricultural and horticultural programmes with particular emphasis on the propagation of open-pollinated plant varieties;
• Preservation gardens for open-pollinated plant varieties;
• Seed banks for non-hybrid plant varieties;
• Scientific research relating to the above matters, either alone or in conjunction with a public university or other institution.

To Provide:

• Financial and educational assistance to community development projects - local and overseas;
• Open-pollinated seed stock to individuals, groups and communities.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie

 Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange is a wonderful source for heirloom seeds and other open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds with an emphasis on vegetables, flowers, and herbs that grow well in the Mid-Atlantic region. We support seed saving and traditional seed breeding. Seed savers and breeders are to thank for our rich selection and we will do whatever we can to support our customers and associates to carry on this noble tradition.

Our seed company started in 1982 as an outgrowth of a love affair with heirloom varieties and in seed saving. Southern Exposure Seed Exchange had its beginning in a small family garden and a kitchen co-opted for seed processing. The kitchen garden has since expanded to numerous growing areas supplemented by a nationwide seed grower network. Now the seed company has its own office, germination testing facility, and environmentally controlled seed storage areas.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie

 Native Seeds/SEARCH

Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. NS/S works to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwestern and northwest Mexico.

Our mission began in 1983, springing from the nexus of cultural longing and impending loss of genetic diversity. Today we safeguard 2000 varieties of arid-land adapted agricultural crops. Some, like watermelons, were adapted from seeds brought by early Europeans. Most of our collection consists of varieties of indigenous crops developed over centuries or millennia to suit the needs of their human partners. We promote the use of these ancient crops and their wild relatives by distributing seeds to traditional communities and to gardeners world wide.

Currently we offer 350 varieties from our collection, grown out at our Conservation Farm in Patagonia, Arizona. We also work to preserve knowledge about the traditional uses of the crop we steward. Through research, seed distribution and community outreach NS/S seeks to protect biodiversity and to celebrate cultural diversity. Both are essential in connecting the past to the future.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Foreninger

 Southern Seed Legacy

Southern Seed Legacy strives to reverse the plant erosion of genetic diversity and cultural knowledge in the American South by encouraging and supporting local seed saving exchange networks and in situ conservation of plant genetic resources. We also house a small seed collection that serves as a backup for crop varieties that are in particular danger of going extinct and a memory bank that documents the cultural history of many southern heirloom varieties.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie

 Saving Our Seeds

Our mission is to promote sustainable, ecological, organic vegetable seed production in the Mid-Atlantic and South. Saving Our Seeds provides information, resources, and publications for gardeners, farmers, seed savers, and seed growers.

This site is provided courtesy of Jeff McCormack, founder and previous owner of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, founder and owner of Garden Medicinals and Culinaries, and co-founder of Virginia Plant Savers. Saving Our Seeds provides another path for raising awareness of our threatened genetic resources, and as an additional resource for providing information and knowledge tools for seed saving and seed conservation.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Økologi

 ProSpecieRara

ProSpecieRara ist eine schweizerische, nicht-Profit-orientierte Stiftung. Sie wurde 1982 gegründet, um gefährdete Nutztierrassen und Kulturpflanzen vor dem Aussterben zu bewahren. Spiegelschaf, Wollschwein, Rote Gartenmelde, Goldmöstler und viele andere beleben seither wieder Felder, Höfe und Wiesen.

Als Folge der Artenschutzkonvention von Rio 1992 unterschrieb der Bund das Artenschutzabkommen von Leipzig. Damit verpflichtete sich die Schweiz, sämtliche Ressourcen bei Tieren und Pflanzen zu erhalten. Ein globaler Aktionsplan beschreibt, wie dieser Schutz zu erfolgen hat. In diese Erhaltungsarbeit sind auch die — teilweise vom Bund unterstützten — Tätigkeiten der Stiftung ProSpecieRara eingebettet.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Foreninger

 ArtDatabanken

ArtDatabanken arbetar med kunskapen om den biologiska mångfalden i Sverige. Vi samlar in, lagrar, utvärderar och tillhandahåller information om våra vildlevande arter. Med stöd av kunskapen om arters status i landet upprättar ArtDatabanken Sveriges rödlista. I rödlistan förtecknas arter vars långsiktiga överlevnad är hotad.

I bokverket Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna kommer kunskapen om större delen av landets alla 50 000 flercelliga växt-, djur- och svamparter att presenteras på ett populärvetenskapligt sätt.

Kategori: Databaser | Gamle sorter og historie | Offentlige organisationer

 Walled Kitchen Gardens

The secrets of the walled kitchen garden: a unique part of our heritage. Walled kitchen gardens are an important part of our history, yet are now largely neglected and little understood. In the last century, most large country houses had a walled kitchen garden. They were highly productive places: food, herbs and flowers for the family, staff and guests of the big house.

Kategori: Gamle sorter og historie

 The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Over 200 acres of superb working Victorian gardens and pleasure grounds together with a magnificent complex of walled gardens. Summerhouses, lawns, lakes and ponds, huge productive gardens and fruithouses, and 22-acre subtropical jungle, are just some of the delights of this “Sleeping Beauty”. Heligan Home Farm and pioneering Horsemoor Hide invite visitors to witness the outer estate being brought back into “good heart”...

Kategori: Besøgshaver og udstillinger | Gamle sorter og historie

 Pometet

Et pomet er en samling af sorter af frugttræer & -buske. Ordet er afledt det latinske ord "pomum", som betyder æble. Pometets sortsamling er meget omfattende - der er bl.a. ca. 750 æblesorter, hvoraf ca. 250 er danske. Inden for andre frugtarter ligger sortsantallet ofte mellem 80 & 120. Samlingen har ikke kun pomologisk (frugtalvlsmæssig) interesse, men fungerer også som genbank og indgår i "Nordisk Genbank". Der knytter sig også en kulturhistorisk interesse ikke mindst til æblesorterne, hvoraf mange er mere end 100 år gamle.

Kategori: Besøgshaver og udstillinger | Forskning og uddannelse | Gamle sorter og historie

 Historiske haver på Frilandsmuseet

Historiske haver - tag på et blomstrende besøg i haver fra forskellige perioder og egne af landet.

Kategori: Besøgshaver og udstillinger | Gamle sorter og historie

 Heritage Seed Library

The Heritage Seed Library (HSL) aims to conserve and make available vegetable varieties that are not widely available. The HSL Department maintains a collection, mainly of European varieties. Over the decades many varieties have been dropped from popular seed catalogues. Our collection contains many of these but also some landraces and a large number of family heirloom varieties that have never been in a catalogue. We are not a gene bank and all our collection, once we have enough seed will become available to our members.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Forhandlere og frøfirmaer | Gamle sorter og historie

 Thomas Etty Esq

Heritage, Unusual & Regional Vegetable Seeds. Mr. Etty begs (most respectfully) to bring to the Notice of the Nobility, Clergy, & Others, his annual specialist seed catalogue. In doing so he trusts that his determination to select from none but the best stocks will ensure him for the patronage which it will be anxious study to merit.

Kategori: Forhandlere og frøfirmaer | Gamle sorter og historie

 Seeds Of Change

In 1989, Seeds of Change started with a simple mission: to help preserve biodiversity and promote sustainable, organic agriculture. By cultivating hundreds of open-pollinated, organically grown, heirloom and traditional vegetable, flower and herb seeds, we have kept to this mission.

Seeds: Our seed list is like our extended family. They are the plants we live with day-to-day, nurturing them as they nurture us. So we choose carefully what we add to our list from year to year.

Kategori: Forhandlere og frøfirmaer | Gamle sorter og historie

 Runåbergs Fröer

Välkommen till Runåbergs sida på nätet. Här finns hela vårt sortiment med flera äldre och uvanliga sorter. Många ekologiskt odlade. Vi har sedan starten 1982 erbjudit frö till växter som vi vet klarar vårt klimat i Skandinavien. Allt testas i flera år innan vi tar in det i sortimentet. Där främst fritidsodlare, som hittar vad de söker hos oss.

Kategori: Forhandlere og frøfirmaer | Gamle sorter og historie | Økologi

 The Real Seed Catalogue

Here we have brought together what we think are the very best vegetable varieties in existence for the home gardener. You'll find no hybrids or genetically modified seed here - just varieties that do really well and taste great when grown by hand on a garden scale. Many are rare heirlooms, and all are open-pollinated (non-hybrid) so you can save your own seed for future years, using the instructions we supply.

Kategori: Forhandlere og frøfirmaer | Gamle sorter og historie

 Kokopelli

L'Association Kokopelli a été créée, durant le printemps 1999, pour reprendre le flambeau de Terre de Semences qui oeuvrait, depuis 1994, à la protection de la biodiversité et à la production et distribution de semences issues de l'agriculture biologique et biodynamique.

Kategori: Forhandlere og frøfirmaer | Foreninger | Gamle sorter og historie