The final report of the AEGIS granted project coordinated by the University of Warwick, United Kingdom has been published on-line (see: AEGIS website).

The project resulted in the definition of criteria (and their limits) and a suitable procedure for identification of Most Appropriate Accessions on carrot, to be applied also to other Apiaceae. A total of 1281 potential European Accessions of advanced cultivars of carrot were identified. This represents 43% of eligible advanced cultivars in the European collections (Figure1).

The final list will be presented to each National Coordinator for ratification of the inclusion of the identified accessions into the European Collection.  Work is currently ongoing to select MAAs from the wild/landrace Daucus dataset. Subsequently, the methodology will be applied to other Apiaceae.

Final report: Assessment of Unique Material in the European Collections of Umbellifer Crops

Figure 1. Impact of MAA selection process on different genebanks blue bars represent the total numbers of Daucus accessions in each collection which were considered for MAA status, red bars show the number of accessions selected as MAAs.