Documents developed by the Working Group
Descriptors
- Plum priority descriptors (February 2020) (2,3 MB)
- Passport and priority descriptors for cherry. Version 1 (EU.CHERRY Version) (August 2018) (1,2 MB)
- ECPGR Priority Descriptors for Peach (draft version 1, August 2013) (955,8 KB)
- General protocols for using the ECPGR descriptors for Prunus spp. (July 2013) (137,5 KB)
- The European Prunus Database – A new list of Prunus passport data and descriptors (2011) (163,4 KB)
- List of minimum passport descriptors for all Prunus species (November 2010) (129,7 KB)
Crop-specific standards
- Prunus-specific standards (PGS) for genebank management (V1, January 2016) (460,8 KB)
- Prunus-specific standards for genebank management (229,0 KB) (extract from final report of eighth meeting, Forli, Italy, September 2010, pp. 16-18)
- AEGIS progress report (56,2 KB), July 2008
Presentations and posters in international meetings
- Ordidge M. et al. 2019. Prunus Alignment – integrating data for European plum and cherry germplasm (863,9 KB). Poster presented at the XV EUCARPIA Fruit Breeding and Genetics Symposium, 3-7 June 2019, Prague – Suchdol, Czech Republic.
- Sehic J. et al. 2016. Genetic diversity of Prunusdomestica selected from ten countries across Europe (322,9 KB). Poster presented at the ISHS IX International Symposium on Plum and Prune Genetics, Breeding and Pomology, 17-21 July 2016, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany.
- Hjeltnes S.H. et al. 2015. PRUNDOC – A Project to Define Accessions for the European Collection. Presentation at III EUFRIN Plum and Prune Working Group Meeting on Present Constraints of Plum Growing in Europe, 20-21 August 2015, Skopelos, Greece.
- Lācis G. 2013. Application of DNA fingerprinting methods for fruit crop genetic resources characterization in Latvia. Poster presented at the EUCARPIA Genetic Resources section meeting, 11-13 June 2013, Alnarp, Sweden.
- Botu M. 2012. Stone fruit germplasm resource and exploitation and links with ECPGR and EUFRIN (2,2 MB). Presentation at First International Congress for Bacterial Diseases and Stone Fruits and Nuts - Joint meeting of the European COST 873 and the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), 14-17 February 2012, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Balsemin E. 2012. The ECPGR Prunus Database - Current status. (3,7 MB) Presentation at First International Congress for Bacterial Diseases of Stone Fruits and Nuts - Joint meeting of European COST 873 and the international Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), 14-17 February 2012, Zürich, Switzerland.
Publications of interest
Articles
- Ordidge M. et al. 2021. Towards a Joint International Database: Alignment of SSR Marker Data for European Collections of Cherry Germplasm. Plants,10(6):1243. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10061243
- Nybom H, Lācis G 2021. Recent Large-Scale Genotyping and Phenotyping of Plant Genetic Resources of Vegetatively Propagated Crops. Plants, 10, 415. https:// doi.org/10.3390/plants10020415
- Pinosio S et al. 2020. A draft genome of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) reveals genome‐wide and local effects of domestication. The Plant Journal, 103, 1420-1432. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14809
- Gaši F, Sehic J, Grahic J et al. 2020. Genetic assessment of the pomological classification of plum Prunus domestica L accessions sampled across Europe. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722--020-00901-y
- Nybom, H., Giovannini, D., Ordidge, M., Hjeltnes, S. H., Grahić, J. and Gaši, F. (2020) “ECPGR recommended SSR loci for analyses of European plum (Prunus domestica) collections”, Genetic Resources, 1(1), pp. 40-48. doi: 10.46265/genresj.2020.1.40-48.
- Xanthopoulou A et al. 2020. Whole genome re-sequencing of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) yields insights into genomic diversity of a fruit species. Horticulture Research, 7:60. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41438-020-0281-9
- Sehic J, Gaši F, Benedikova D et al. 2019. Genetic diversity of Prunus domestica L. selected from ten countries across Europe. Acta Horticulturae 1260:159-162 DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2019.1260.25
- Hjeltnes SH, Giovannini D, Blouin M, Benedikova D, Drogoudi P, Höfer M, Lacis G, Ognjanov V, Lateur M, Engels JM, Maggioni L. 2017. PRUNDOC – a project to define accessions for the European Collection. Acta Horticulturae 1175:19-24. DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2017.1175.5
- Höfer M, Giovannini D. 2017. Phenotypic characterization and evaluation of European cherry collections: a survey to determine the most commonly used descriptors (351,1 KB). Scientific Pages of Horticulture 1(1):7-12.
- Benediková D, Giovannini D. 2013. Review on genetic resources in the ECPGR Prunus Working Group. Acta Horticulturae 981:43-51. DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2013.981.2
- Clarke JB, Tobutt KR. 2009. A standard set of accessions, microsatellites and genotypes for harmonising the fingerprinting of cherry collections for the ECPGR. Acta Horticulturae 814: 615-618. DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2009.814.104
Descriptors
- Cherry descriptors (IBPGR/CEC 1985)
- Apricot descriptors (Revised) (IBPGR/CEC 1984)
- Almond descriptors (Revised) (IBPGR 1981)
- Peach descriptors (IBPGR 1985)
- Plum descriptors (IBPGR/CEC 1985)
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