Liveseed
Liveseed
Project Presentation
- LIVESEED general project presentation (September 2017)
LIVESEED leaflet
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Booklets
LIVESEED Cross-visits T2.2 – Reports
- LIVESEED Cross-visit France: Organic seed production in cooperative (June 2018)
- LIVESEED Cross-visit report Italy (July 2019)
LIVESEED National visits T1.2 – Country reports
- LIVESEED National visit Estonia: Implementation of the regulation on organic seed in Estonia (December 2018)
- LIVESEED National visit Latvia: Implementation of the regulation on organic seed in Latvia (December 2018)
- LIVESEED National visit Lithuania: Implementation of the regulation on organic seed in Lithuania (December 2018)
- LIVESEED National visit Hungary: Implementation of the regulation on organic seed in Hungary (February 2019)
- LIVESEED National visit Spain: Implementation of the regulation on organic seed in Spain (March 2019)
- LIVESEED National visit Poland: Implementation of the regulation on organic seed in Poland (April 2019)
- LIVESEED National visit Romania: Implementation of the regulation on organic seed in Romania (May 2019)
Project results
- Main outcomes and SWOT of experiences from marketing populations under the Temporary Experiment into the commercialization of heterogeneous populations in the European Union (Ambrogio Costanzo, ORC, with input from Charlotte Bickler, ORC; Monika Messmer, FiBL; Frederic Rey, ITAB; Matteo Petitti, RSR; Carl Vollenweider, FZD; Nanna Karkov Ytting, Agrologica. 2018) Work in progress.
- Overview on the current organizational models for cultivar testing for Organic Agriculture over some EU countries (Kovacs T. and Mariegaard Pedersen T. 2019. Overview on the current organizational models for cultivar testing for Organic Agriculture over some EU countries. Report for LIVESEED project-Boosting organic seed and plant breeding across Europe 2017 – 2021. 77 pp.)
Practice Abstracts
List of cell-fusion free brassica varieties
- Positivliste Zellfusionsfreie Sorten Gemüsebau (FiBL; Bioland; Naturland; Bio Austria; Bio Suisse; Demeter; BNN; 2018)
The CMS technology compromises the integrety of the cell by the forced fusion of cells from different species, this is not in line with the organic principles. Therefor several private organic labels initiated this positive list of vegetable varieties which are cell-fusion free. This list is based on personal trustful contacts to individual breeders, analyitic qPCR test or tests for male sterility to find out which cultivars are really cell fusion free. This list is very helpful for label organisations and traders to specifically allow certain cultivars for contract cultivation and for farmers who produce under certain labels and this list also helps to identify most important breeding gaps.
Translations and extension of the lists are planned.
