Small grain cereals BRC
Practical Information
Location
Collections
Oat collection
The oat collection comprises some 1,300 varieties grown in France, the vast majority of them French (65%), but also German, North American, Swedish and English. 602 accessions are part of the national collection.
Wheat collection
The soft wheat (Triticum aestivum) collection includes around 14,000 different cultivable lines from 108 countries. A third are of French origin, another third European, and the rest come from North America, Asia, Oceania, and Africa. The durum wheat (Triticum durum) collection, including its relatives, comprises about 3,200 accessions. It is mainly composed of Triticum durum but also includes wild genotypes like wild starch plants (Triticum dicoccoides), starch plants (Triticum dicoccum), and poulards (Triticum turgidum).
Barley collection
Today, the Biological Resource Center's collection totals over 6,600 Hordeum vulgare lines, of which 570 accessions are part of the national collection.
Rye collection
The Secale cereale collection comprises just under eighty local populations, mainly from the Massif Central and Portugal, of which 50 are part of the national collection. This very modest collection is probably not representative of what may have existed in France in the past, but which has unfortunately disappeared.
Triticale collection
The triticale collection comprises around 1,400 lines or varieties currently being evaluated. 36 accessions are part of the national collection.
Collection of cereal relatives
The collection of related species comprises 463 Aegilops.