THE PORTUGUESE NATIONAL INVENTORY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES 2018-DEVELOPMENT AND STATUS

Since the 1970s, Portugal has been endeavouring systematic and coordinated efforts for ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources. Portugal maintains in ex situ a large seed collection of cultivated species (cereals, fibres, grain legumes, vegetables), wild species (forages, MAP species), also national clone collections of olive, fruit trees and grapes. In 2011 the Portuguese National Genebank (BPGV) and ISOPLEXIS implemented the GRIN-Global platform, as provides the opportunity to increase data quality, to have long term sustainability for data curation, integrates all collections in one management system optimizing the costs and staff resources. Now, the main objective in Portugal is to implement the Grin Global Platform at the national level to consolidate its National Programme of Plant Genetic Resources (NPPGR) with all national partners directly involved in the conservation of PGR. The main objectives of this communication are: to demonstrate the valuable contribution of the Grin-Global platform to the NPPGR; discuss the development and status of the Portugal’s National Inventory 2018 in EURISCO, analyse the evolution of the amount of passport information in EURISCO from 2015 to 2018; to address the steps that are being taken in Portugal for the Implementation of the Grin-Global Platform at the national level.


Introduction
Portugal is located in Southwestern Europe, in the most western part of the Iberian Peninsula. The insular territories comprehend the Autonomous Regions of Azores and Madeira. Mainland Portugal is essentially integrated within the Mediterranean region, although the frontier between the latter and the Atlantic region crosses the country's extreme north-eastern. The Azores and Madeira Archipelagos are situated within the Macaronesian region (figure 1).  The geographical location and geophysical conditions of the Portuguese territory, shaped by human intervention, have led to a wide variety of biotopes, ecosystems and landscapes, more or less humanized, which are home to a rich range of autochthonous flora. About 3,600 species of plants occur in Portugal (ICNF, 1998). Portugal is also very rich in crop diversity as it is a secondary centre of diversity for several crops, has very particular traditional agricultural systems and traditional knowledge associated to those crops and agricultural systems.

Current Status of The Portuguese Ex Situ Crop Collections
Since the 1970s, Portugal has been carrying out systematic and coordinated efforts for ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources: Portugal has a large biodiversity in general and crop diversity in particular. assuming a leadership role. Figure 2 summarizes the Portuguese ex situ crop collections' location, taking into account the collections that are maintained by each institution and the respective location.  INIAV was entrusted with the responsibility of the coordination of the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources in Portugal.
During 2016-2017 the main goal was to integrate the other collections (material and data) in the BPGV, Braga (figure 4). Therefore, the seed collections that existed in the "Estação Agronómica Nacional" (PRT005) and in the "Estação Nacional de Melhoramento de Plantas" (PRT004) was integrate to the BPGV (PRT001). Paragraph 1: "The Contracting Parties shall cooperate to develop and strengthen a Global Information System to facilitate the exchange of information, based on existing information systems, on scientific, technical and environmental matters related to PGR for food and agriculture, with the expectation that such exchange of information will contribute to the sharing of benefits by making information on PGR for food and agriculture available to all Contracting Parties. In developing the Global Information System, cooperation will be sought with the Clearing House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity".
However, as early as in 1992, the BPGV began computerizing activities related to the conservation of germplasm, databases were developed, centralized by species, with data records of collecting, characterization, regeneration and multiplication, germination, conservation and distribution (Rocha, 1999). In 1996, the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA), today INIAV, already at the time playing the leadership role in the coordination of the PGR national activities, implemented, maintained and run a national PGR documentation system, the National Information System on Plant Genetic Resources "(SNIRGV), (Bettencourt, 1996).
In  The type of information that is provided by GRIN-Global website in relation to germplasm collection of BPGV is shown in figure 6.
The BPGV GRIN-Global Website (INIAV, 2018b), provides "public" user access to the germplasm collections, and will deliver this information globally.

Results and Discussion
Currently, EURISCO contains passport data about 26,151 accessions of the Portuguese collections, maintained in 6 national institutions (Table 1). Analysing the Portuguese collections in EURISCO (EURISCO, 2018): Development and status, we verified that there was a great increase of the information made available. It went from 12,193 accessions, with passport data, that were registered until 2015 to 26,151 accessions with passport data in 2018, maintained in 6 (six) national institutions (Table 1).
Highlighted in yellow we can see that: •   We can see also that in BPGV the most representative collection is cereals, followed by grain legumes, vegetables and forages/pastures.  The "Acquisition source" of Portuguese collections in EURISCO are represented as percentage of the total number of accessions ( Figure 11). In terms of the "Acquisition source" the most represented are Farm store and Farm or cultivated habitat followed by Field, Unknown, Wild Habitat, Fallow land, Backyard or home garden and Market or shop. The "Country of origin" of the Portuguese collections in EURISCO, is represented as a percentage of the total number of accessions ( Figure 12).
Although the Portuguese germplasm collections includes material originated from 32 countries, the most represented is Portugal followed by Spain. Material of unknown origin represents 14,43% of the total, showing that it is important to gap filling for the missing information The "Type of Collection" of the accessions of the Portuguese collections in EURISCO, are represented as a percentage of the total number of accessions ( Figure 13). In terms of the "Type of Storage" the most represented, are Long-term (47%) followed by Medium-term (45%), Field collection (5%) and Unknown (3%). Presently, the main goal to achieve in Portugal is to implement the Grin-Global Platform at the national level. To achieve this main goal the following have already been achieved: • "2018 Grin-Global and Genesys Workshop", 4-8 June 2018, organized by the Global Crop Diversity Trust and BPGV, in Porto, Portugal • Workshop "Implementation of the Grin-Global Platform at the National level", 25-27 September 2018, organized by BPGV, in Braga, Portugal.

Conclusions
Implementing Grin-Global platform at national level will promote, facilitate and enable access and interoperability between documentation systems, giving wider access to existing genetic material maintained in the country.
When implemented at the national level, the Grin-Global platform will consolidate the Portuguese National Programme on Plant Genetic Resources, with all the national stakeholders directly involved in the conservation of plant genetic resources.
The integration of all national collections into the Grin-Global platform will contribute to a more complete and updated Portugal National Inventory of Plant Genetic Resources.
The Grin-Global platform allows you to upload new data or to update existing data from the Portuguese National Inventory to EURISCO and that the available information is in greater quantity and quality, in a short period of time.