Background information
The National Crop Wild Relative database and website was established in 2010 through funding provided by the
Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine under their grant aid scheme for the Conservation of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Within the Data Centre, the project is managed by Dr. Úna FitzPatrick who can be contacted by telephone at + 353 (0) 51 306 240 or by email: ufitzpatrick@biodiversityireland.ie
Crop Wild Relative Species profiles
This website currently provides species profiles for the 102 ITPGRFA Annex I species that occur in Ireland. These species profiles have been collated by Dr Darach Lupton and include information taken from the following sources:
- Common name
- Scientific name
- Irish name
- Uses: Curtis, 2009
- Conservation Status: Curtis & McGough, 1988
- Status: Jebb, et. al. unpublished
- Vegetative nature: Webb, 1953
- Lifecycle: Webb, 1953
- Distribution: Webb, 1953
- Distribution changes in Britain and Ireland since 1962: Preston et. al., 2002
- Habitat: Webb, 1953; Reynolds, 2002
- Facts: Reynolds, 2002; Vaughan and Geissler, 1997; Francis, 2005; Hubbard, 1984
- Ex-situ conservation: Curtis, 2009
Click to download more information on the Species profiles
References:
Curtis, T.G.F., McGough, H.N. 1988. The Irish Red Data Book: 1. Vascular Plants. Wildlife Service Ireland.
Curtis, T. 2009. Final Report on the Project: The production of a priority list of crop wild relatives for Ireland. Irish Department of Agriculture.
Francis, S. A. 2005. Bristish Field Crops – A Pocket Guide to the Identification, History and Uses of Arable Crops in Great Britain. 2nd Ed.
Hubbard, C. (1984). Grasses – A guide the their Structure, Identification, Uses and Distribution in the British Isles. Penguin.
Jebb, M, Doogue, D., Reynolds, S., P. Wyse Jackson (Unpublished). Archaeophytes in Ireland.
Preston, C.D., Pearman, D.A. and T. D. Dines (2002). The New Atlas of the British Flora. Oxford Unversity Press, USA.
Reynolds, S. 2002. A catalogue of Alien plants in Ireland. Published by the National Botnaic Gardens, Glasnevin.
Vaughan, J. G. and C. A. Geissler, 1997. The New Oxford Book of Food Plants. Oxford University Press
Webb, D. A. 1953. An Irish Flora. Dundalgan Press
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine, Genetic Heritage Ireland, The National Parks and Wildlife Service and the National Botanic Gardens for their support in this work. Thanks to Paul Green for the use of his photographs in the species profiles.
