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Side Event

Establishment of the Pannon Seed Bank for the long-term ex-situ conservation of Hungarian plants

Organizer
Ministry of Environment and Water

Date and Time
21 October 2010 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10)

At the side event we intend to present the so-called Pannon Seed Bank Project started in January 2010. The main goal of the project is the long-term seed preservation of the wild vascular flora of the Pannonian biogeographical region in order to assist and complement in situ species conservation activities. The Pannon Seed Bank will be established by expanding thecurrent functions of Hungary's main agricultural gene bank - which is according to FAO's data the world’s 13th largest agricultural genebank. The establishment of a joint seed bank for the agricultural and wild flora would be a unique and demonstrative example worldwide in line with the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, as the genetic diversity of the Pannonian biogeographical region’s entire flora, including the wild flora as well as crop and vegetable plants serving human nutrition are aimed to be conserved at one place.