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Plant Genetic Resources Centre
Integrated seed, herbarium, tissue-culture, cryopreservation, digital, fungal, and genomic facility for long-term conservation and research on UAE plant diversity.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Al Ain, Abu Dhabi; UAE native and crop-wild-relative flora
- Project type
- national plant genebank and genomic characterization platform
- Research domain
- plant genetic resources, biodiversity, and conservation genomics
- Years
- 2024–
- Lifecycle status
- operational
- Status basis
- The center was inaugurated in the first quarter of 2024 and reported active collections and genetic characterization in December 2024.
- Status evidence date
- 2024-12-18
- Scale
- Storage capacity above 20,000 seed specimens and conservation goal exceeding 600 wild species; by December 2024 about 500 seed samples/105 species, 4,000 herbarium specimens/668 taxa, 3,000 digital samples, over 100 cryopreserved samples/80 species, and genetic characterization of six species.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi
- Partner organizations
- Ministry of Climate Change and Environment
- Organism / population
- UAE wild plants and crop wild relatives
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- seed accessions
- herbarium specimens
- tissue culture
- cryopreserved material
- digital specimens
- genetic characterization
Data access
Reference collections available to researchers by request through EAD's Research Hub.
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Operational national genetic-resource platform with genomic laboratory capability and reusable biological collections.
Editorial note
Broader than a sequencing project; included as a core enabling platform.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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