Certification process of small grain cereals BRC in France

Audrey Didier (1) , Marion Deloche (1) , Florence Exbrayat-Vinson (1) , Cindy Haller (1) , Lionel Bardy (1) , François Balfourier (1)

1 GDEC - Génétique Diversité et Ecophysiologie des Céréales

In France, genetic resources are maintained in several Biological Resources Centres (BRC) spread all over the country. Most part of these BRC are involved in a quality management process. The development of quality system becomes a priority in regard of new notions (as collection of reference) and requirement at European and international levels. In this context, the French small grain cereals BRC engages itself in a certification process since March 2014. The certification's framework applied to principal missions of small grain cereals BRC:acquisition and regeneration. Each year new materials are introduced in collection for different purposes (scientific projects, evaluation networks, ie...). To be able to answer to Nagoya protocol requirement and also to be in agreement with European collection (AEGIS) philosophy, acquisition process has been clarified and standardized. Regeneration of small grain cereals genetic resources are realized at INRA Clermont-Ferrand with around 10% of the whole collection (≈ 27 000 acc.) characterized per year for primary descriptors. A part of these data is available online on SIReGal database (http://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/siregal). conservation: Active collection is maintained in a 100 m3 cold room at +4°C and 30% relative humidity. It is used to regeneration, multiplication, distribution, characterization and assessment. Base collection is maintained at -20°C in freezer as secure storage. Various tests concerning drying before storage and germination are done to improve conservation conditions. distribution: To improve access to small grain cereals collections, a work on data's curation and submission to SIReGal database has been done and it still in process. Around 4 300 samples have been distributed in 2014, mainly to researchers and breeders but also to farmers and associations. Terms and conditions of BRC have been formalized and a first survey of genetic resources' requesters was launched in autumn 2014 to better understand their expectations and to have a feedback on BRC services (seed quality, available information, delay, documentation …). Each proceeding has been well documented to clarify and improved our methodology.

Mots clés: small grain cereals; eenetic resources; biological resources centre; certification; NF S 96-900

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Audrey Didier, Marion Deloche, Florence Exbrayat-Vinson, Cindy Haller, Lionel Bardy, et al.. Certification process of small grain cereals BRC in France. Seed Longevity Workshop 2015, Jul 2015, Wernigerode, Germany. n.p., 2015, Seed Longevity Workshop 2015. ⟨hal-01512049⟩