European Association for Research on Plant Breeding

Plant Breeding Research Association

Netherlands

Membership

2000

Official language

German / English

President / CEO

Andreas Börner^[1]Websitehttp://www.eucarpia.eu

The European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, Europäische Gesellschaft für Züchtungsforschung, Association Européenne pour l'Amélioration des Plantes, Asociación Europea para el Mejoramiento de las Plantas, (in short EUCARPIA) is a non-profit organisation which promotes international scientific and technical research in the area of plant breeding in order to encourage its further development.^[2]^[3]

History

EUCARPIA was founded in 1956 and has its headquarters in Wageningen (the Netherlands).

It was instrumental in the 1960s to build gene banks in Europe.^[4]

Mission and aims

Its aim is exchange of information and maintenance if international contacts in the area of plant breeding. To this end the society organises and supports annual workshops and meetings on current topics from all sectors of plant breeding and genetic research, during which there are discussions about various agricultural crops and topics of general interest. These topics pursue method- or plant- specific questions on topics from biometry to genome analysis and from resistance breeding to the history of plant breeding. A General Congress and General Assembly is held every four years.

Sections and working Groups: There are sections and working groups with the GPZ which hold regular meetings and workshops:

Potatoes, Vanessa Prigge (Germany)
Cereals, Andreas Börner (Germany)
Organic and Low-Input Agriculture, Linda Legzdiņa (Latvia)
Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses, David Kopecký (Czech Republic)
Genetic Resources, Shelagh Kell (United Kingdom)
Maize and Sorghum, Alain Charcosset (France)
Vegetables, Yuling, Bai (The Netherlands)
Fruit, Jiri Sedlak (Czech Republic)
Ornamentals, Johan van Huylenbroeck (Belgium)
Oil and Protein Crops, Leonardo Velasco (Spain)
Biometrics in Plant Breeding, Hans-Peter Piepho (Germany)

Members that The Society has bestowed honorary membership on include the following:

Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, Austria, 1956
Wilhelm Rudorf, Germany, 1965
Jean Bustarret, France, 1968
Erik Akerberg, Sweden, 1972
Jan Stefan Bojanowski, Poland, 1989
Hermann Hänsel, Austria, 2004
Fernando Nuez-Vinals, Spain, 2004
Gerhard Röbbelen, Germany, 2004
Peter Ruckenbauer, Austria, 2012
Michele Stanca, Italy, 2012
John Bradshaw, Scotland, 2012
Hans Winzeler, Switzerland, 2016

References

^ "Executive". European Association for Research on Plant Breeding. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
^ EUCARPIA Meeting 2017
^ Eucarpia Symposium in INRA France
^ Lehmann, Christian O. (February 1981). "Collecting European land-races and development of European gene banks-historical remarks". Die Kulturpflanze. 29 (1): 29–40. doi:10.1007/BF02014732.

External links

Website EUCARPIA
Eucarpia at ETH Zürich Switzerland
Website of the Federal Association of German Plant Breeders (Bundesverband Deutscher Pflanzenzüchter)
Website of the Plant Breeding Society (Gesellschaft für Pflanzenzüchtung)
EUCARPIA on Twitter

Conservation and environmental foundations

America

North America	ADM Capital Foundation
South America	Charles Darwin Foundation Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco

Europe

Africa

Asia

Asean	APE Foundation Masarang Foundation Philippine Tarsier Foundation
East Asia	China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation
South Asia	Centre for Environmental Justice Environmental Foundation Limited The Pearl Protectors