2nd International Workshop on Plant Genetic Resources

The 2nd International Workshop on Plant Genetic Resources, marking the end of the PRO-GRACE project, was held from 8 to 10 October 2025.

The presentations given at the event are available below.

Wednesday, 8 October – Workshop Day 1: PRO-GRACE results and legacy

• Keynote lecture: Dissecting Crop Diversity and Trait Architecture Using Genomics and Phenomics — Lorenzo Barchi

Pillar 1: Services for Ex Situ Conservation

• Ex situ PGR conservation: genebanks in Europe – conservation and availability of material — Theo van Hintum

• How omics tools may support PGR management – from identification to services — Michael Lyngkjaer

• Services to support the ex situ PGR community — Jaime Prohens

Pillar 2: Services for In Situ Conservation

• In situ introduction, integration and networking (crop wild relatives & landraces) — Nigel Maxted

• National crop wild relatives in situ planning and its application — Joana Magos Brehm

• In situ crop wild relatives management planning and implementation — José M. Iriondo

Pillar 3: Data & Information Management

• Inventory of plant genetic resources (PGR) information not represented in EURISCO — Catherine Hazel Aguilar

• How to make describing PGR data easier – MI-PGR — Catherine Hazel Aguilar

• Towards interconnecting external phenotypic data with EURISCO — Kritika Adhikari

Pillar 4: Characterization and (Pre)Breeding Services

• Phenotyping for breeding and pre-breeding — Roland Pieruschka

• Metabolomic approaches for PGR — Esra Karakas

• Molecular characterization of large collections using genomic tools — Lorenzo Barchi

• Bioinformatic approaches for identifying traits in PGR — Luciana Gaccione

Thursday, 9 October – Workshop Day 2: PRO-GRACE results and legacy

Pillar 5: PGR Access and Capacity Building

• Current status of access to PGR for research in Europe — Sandra Goritschnig

• Opportunities for supporting ethical, legal and societal issues in the PGR community — Leire Escajedo, Imke Thormann

• Managing phytosanitary risks in germplasm collections — Wuu-Yang Willie Chen

• Building capacity of stakeholders in PGR conservation and use — Vojtech Holubec

• Examples of capacity building: Genebank peer reviews — Dagmar Janovská, Zoltan Ay

• Capacity building and outreach activities of the future GRACE RI — Panagiotis Kalaitzis

Thursday, 9 October – Workshop: GRACE collaboration and synergies

• An outline of the GRACE-RI proposed services — Giovanni Giuliano

• Synergies with ECPGR — Sandra Goritschnig

• Synergies with the Crop Trust — Luigi Guarino

• Synergies with ITPGRFA — Marco Marsella

• Synergies with seed sharing NGOs — Bela Bartha

• Synergies with Emphasis RI — Suzie Robinson

• Synergies with ELIXIR RI — Katharina Heil

• Synergies with LifeWatch ERIC — José Manuel Ávila

• Synergies with DISSCO RI — Gabriele Bucci

• Synergies with IN-SYLVA RI — Laurent Saint-André

Friday, 10 October – Workshop: From conservation to use: expectations from the private sector

Organized by Euroseeds

• Euroseeds: the voice of the European seed sector – Supporting biodiversity and innovation through EU research projects — Darya Chernokova, Federico Pisani

• ABS and international frameworks to access genetic resources — Szonja Csörgő

• The industry view: accessing plant genetic resources and harnessing data for breeding — Ivo Gariboldi

• PPPs for plant genetic resources in integrated seed sector development — Ninja Lacey