Prioritized crop wild relatives in Spain: status on the National Inventory of Plant Genetic Resources for Agriculture and Food

his paper aims to report progress in the prioritization of crop wild relatives (CWR) to be achieved by 2020, with the objective of establishing national conservation action plans, filling ex situ conservation gaps and enhancing CWR utilization, as proposed by Maxted and Kell (2012). In order to know the status of the ex situ conservation of CWR in Spain, we have reviewed the passport data in the database of the Spanish National Inventory of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA NI) of the species included in the crop genera selected in the preparation of the prioritized Spanish CWR checklist in the context of the PGR Secure project (Rubio Teso et al., 2012).