YURIEV PLANT PRODUCTION INSTITUTE
of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine

16th MEETING OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN COOPERATIVE PROGRAM ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES (ECPGR)

On June 7-9, 2022, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Introduction and Storage of Plant Genetic Resources of the Plant Production Institute named after V.Ya. Yuriev of NAAS, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences Kseniia Ivanivna Dokukina, participated in the 16th meeting of the Steering Committee of the European Cooperative Program on Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR), which was held in Alnarp/Malmo, Sweden.

The meeting was dedicated to the implementation of the action strategy on plant genetic resources as a foundation of the stability of agro-food production and fulfillment of the bio-economic potential of European countries. Support of the National Plant Genebank of Ukraine as a national asset of the country and a valuable component of the global gene pool of plants in wartime was one of the issues discussed at the meeting.