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Genebank details

Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute

The genebank of the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute (LARI) was established in 2013 with the repatriation of 1,300 accessions from the Millennium Seed Bank, jointly collected between 1996 and 2010. Over the years and through joint projects and collecting missions, LARI’s genebank doubled their number of accessions in ex situ long and medium-term conservation.

This collection covers over 1,070 taxa from 462 genera and is composed of 60% wild flora, 14% landraces (of wheat, barley, chickpea and lentils), and 26% of crop wild relatives of various cereals and forages. Most of this collection is available in the MLS and for immediate distribution. The genebank is also conserving herbarium specimens for each seed collection.`

Institute code
LBN020
Show in FAO WIEWS database
Type
Governmental
Country
Lebanon
Web link
http://www.lari.gov.lb
Data provider
Lebanon National Seed Bank
Accessions in Genesys
2,491
Location
Latitude
33.86
Longitude
35.99
Most represented Crops
wheat
169
barley
122
chickpea
45
lentil
28
forages
8
Other
16
Not specified
2,103
Most represented Crop names
Bread wheat
141
Barley
100
Armenian cucumber
77
Chickpea
45
Durum wheat
28
Other
1,801
Not specified
299
Most represented Genera
Triticum
185
Medicago
146
Hordeum
140
Vicia
115
Trifolium
101
Other
1,804
Most represented Species
Triticum aestivum
141
Hordeum vulgare
122
Cucumis melo
78
Cicer arietinum
45
Triticum durum
26
Other
2,079
Biological status of accession
Wild
2,054
Traditional cultivar/Landrace
417
Advanced/improved cultivar
20
Provenance of material
Lebanon
2,491
Type of Germplasm storage
Seed collection
2,491
Curation type
Not specified
2,491
FAO WIEWS code of donor institute
Not specified
2,491
Breeder code
Not specified
2,491
Site of safety duplication
GBR004
1,757
LBN002
668
NOR051
456
Safety duplicated in Svalbard
Not in SGSV
2,035
Backed up in SGSV
456
ITGPRFA Multi-lateral system
Accession is not in the Multi-lateral system of ITPGRFA
1,759
Accession is part of the Multi-lateral system of ITPGRFA
732
Available for distribution
Not specified
2,491
Last updates of passport data
September 5, 2025
3
August 21, 2025
1,137
May 9, 2024
1,351
Passport Data Completeness Index (PDCI)
Genesys uses the PDCI as an indicator of the completeness of published passport data. The PDCI uses the presence or absence of data points in the documentation of a genebank accession, taking into account the presence or value of other data points (van Hintum et al. 2011). For example, a wild accession should have a well-defined collection site but no variety name. The PDCI ranges from 0 to 10, where 0 is the minimum score assigned to rather incomplete passport records and 10 is the maximum score assigned to very complete passport records. Any type of accession, wild, landrace, breeding material or modern variety, can attain the PDCI’s maximal score.
Average PDCI score for 2,491 accessions is 6.72, with minimum score of 3.60 and maximum score of 8.35.