Department of Genetic Resources

Activities:

• National programme of the plant gene-pool preservation and utilization – creation of national collection of species of the family Fabaceae (Medicago spp., Trifolium pratense, T. repens, Trifolium spp. and others), Carthamus tinctorius, Phacelia tanacetifolia, Phalaris canariensis and other wild-growing plant species.
• Methods of the conservation and monitoring of the disappearing gene-pool of the regional forms and endangered wild species of the useful plants.
• Conservation of plant biodiversity in the system of sustainable agriculture and landscaping.
• Diversity of underutized cereals and pseudocereals and its use in sustainable agriculture and in healthy food production.
• Providing genetic resources and respective informations for users in the Czech Republic and abroad.
• The use of non-traditional fodder species in the agriculture and in the landscaping (Phacelia tanacetifolia, Trifolium resupinatum, T. alexandrinum, T. incarnatum, Phalaris canariensis, Onobrychis viciifolia, Anthyllis vulneraria, Lotus corniculatus, L. ornithopodioides, Medicago lupulina, Secale cereale var. multicaule, Bromus secalinus).
• Minor crops for specific food utilization.
• Increasing of the diversity of forage crop communities.
• Vigor of seeds, quality of planting material and their significance for standard and selected special crops for plant breeding,seed production and for plant producers.
• Cooperation with protected landscape area Moravský kras and Podyjí national park.
• Botanical monitoring of the permanent grass growths.
• Breeding of the non-traditional fodder crops.
• Study of vegetation of fallow and barren communities

Research Institute for Fodder Crops Ltd. examine assortment of the Medicago sp., Trifolium pratense, T. repens and other fodder plants in field trials. We search assortment of this species from the whole world for our trials. If you are interested in examination of your materials under the conditions of the Czech Republic, you can send samples of c. 250 g. When the trials will be finished, we will send you the results. With the packet, please attach proforma invoice and with the samples of Medicago sp., it is necessary to attach phytosanitary certificate and declaration, that the samples do not come from the stands infected by Corynebacterium and Verticillium.