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Federal Plant Variety Office (BSA)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Bundessortenamt is an independant senior federal authority under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. It is responsible for granting of Plant Breeders' Rights, the registration of varieties in the National List and for variety and seed affairs. To the functions of the Bundessortenamt belongs also the co-operation at the advancement variety and seeds-legal framework on national and to international level. The Bundessortenamt has 11 trial stations for variety testing throughout Germany, with about 630 ha of agricultural land in the various cultivation and climatic regions. Approximately 15,000 m² are available for greenhouse cultivation. Further tests are carried out at 450 trial sites in the Federal Lands or on the basis of bilateral agreements at test sites belonging to other UPOV-member
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative project: breeding efficiency, yield performance and adaption of maize populations in different environments (ecological, conventional) and setting up a new maize population for science, breeding and agricultural praxis
- Collaborative project: The use of artificial intelligence and optical sensors for the assessment of characteristics in variety testing in sugar beet - subproject D
- Value for Cultivation and Use (VCU) testing under organic conditions
Involved in research projects
- Analysis of rapeseed hydrids with regard to the challenge of differentiation by using molecular markers
- Analytical characterisation of medicinal and aromatic plants from examinations of the Bundessortenamt
- Assessment of crop resistance/tolerance against pests and diseases and development of strategies to use resistance/tolerance in arable crops
- Control of Fusarium in maize Mykotoxinreduktion
- Determination of resistance of spring and winter barley to Puccinia hordei in the frame of official tests for variety release
- Development and optimisation of methods for resistance assessment of ornamentals and vegetables
- Development of resistance and tolerance testing methods for establishing guidelines for resistance testing against plant parasitic nematodes
- Elaboration of scientific principles for the in-situ and on-farm management of genetic resources of agricultural and horticultural crops
- Establishment of duplicate collections in the German Fruit Genbank in apple, cherry and strawberry
- Evaluation of the processing quality of bread and non-bread cereals in official responsibility
- Evalutation of the Phylloxera-susceptibility of rootstocks in grapevine
- Harmonization of resistance tests to diseases for DUS testing
- Importance of root lesion nematodes in German crop production and strategies to breed resistant varieties
- Importance of root lesion nematodes in German crop production and strategies to breed resistant varieties
- Importance of root lesion nematodes in German crop production and strategies to breed resistant varieties, Subproject A
- Importance of root lesion nematodes in German crop production and strategies to breed resistant varieties, Subproject C
- Investigation and description of the phenological growth stages of mono- and dicotyledonous plants (BBCH code).
- Investigations on characterization and disease effects of viruses on fruit crops and grapevine (e.g. little cherry, latent viruses of apple, vector-borne viruses of strawberry, leafroll disease of grapevine)
- Investigations on characterization and disease effects of viruses on fruit crops and grapevine (e.g. little cherry, latent viruses of apple, vector-borne viruses of strawberry, leafroll disease of grapevine)
- Nationwide pilot for staggered crop of perennial ryegrass in testing
- Resistance of varieties of vegetables, medicinal plants and spice plants against pathogens, race analysis (eg downy mildew on lettuce), collaborative investigations by the national working group 'Resistances and Tolerances in Vegetables (IRTG)'
- Statuatory testing of fodder radish for resistance towards Meloidogyne chitwoodi
- Testing of potato varieties for resistance against potato cyst nematodes; investigations on occurrence and distribution of pathotypes in Germany
- Testing of winter barley against yellow mosaic virus
Contact
Federal Plant Variety Office
(BSA)
Osterfelddamm 80
30627 Hannover
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: 0511 9566-5
Fax: 0511 563362
Email: BSA(@)bundessortenamt.de
