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Genebank details

Margot Forde Genebank, AgResearch Ltd

The Margot Forde Germplasm Centre (MFGC) is the national forage genebank of New Zealand, and is currently headquartered in the north and south of the country at Palmerston North and Lincoln.

The MFGC was named after well-known collector and curator Margot Forde in 1992. It currently houses more than 160,000 temperate forage accessions belonging to around 2,500 species (a large portion of these are breeders’ lines).

Data on over 3,600 temperate forage accessions is currently available in Genesys. This represents two major forage species, Lolium perenne and Trifolium repens, as well as Trifolium occidentale, a proposed ancestor of Trifolium repens (Williams et al., 2012).

Accessions of these species have been collected by staff from the MFGC and related organisations during the past 80 years.

Institute code
NZL001
Show in FAO WIEWS database
Type
Governmental
Country
New Zealand
Web link
http://www.agresearch.co.nz/seeds
Data provider
AgResearch Margot Forde Genebank
Accessions in Genesys
11,144
Location
Latitude
-40.2
Longitude
175.39
Most represented Crops
forages
5,892
wheat
449
barley
197
oat
45
rye
43
Other
137
Not specified
4,381
Most represented Crop names
white clover
2,518
sub clover;subterraneum clover
1,247
perennial ryegrass
1,151
red clover
795
medic
339
Other
5,091
Not specified
3
Most represented Genera
Trifolium
5,997
Lolium
1,575
Medicago
360
Aegilops
331
Dactylis
281
Other
2,600
Most represented Species
Trifolium repens
2,518
Trifolium subterraneum
1,349
Lolium perenne
1,151
Trifolium pratense
795
Lolium multiflorum
292
Other
5,039
Biological status of accession
Wild
9,759
Semi-natural/wild
437
Traditional cultivar/Landrace
400
Advanced/improved cultivar
237
Semi-natural/sown
183
Other
119
Not specified
9
Provenance of material
Greece
2,998
New Zealand
1,776
Spain
1,035
Italy
980
Portugal
878
Other
3,467
Not specified
10
Type of Germplasm storage
Medium term seed collection
11,144
Curation type
Not specified
11,144
FAO WIEWS code of donor institute
NZL001
775
AUS091
188
AUS166
150
AUS002
145
NZL011
95
Other
200
Not specified
9,591
Breeder code
NZL001
3,803
AUS002
58
AUS091
11
AUS001
5
AUS171
2
Other
3
Not specified
7,262
Site of safety duplication
NOR051
842
Not specified
10,302
Safety duplicated in Svalbard
Not in SGSV
10,302
Backed up in SGSV
842
ITGPRFA Multi-lateral system
Not specified
11,144
Available for distribution
Not specified
11,144
Last updates of passport data
March 31, 2025
3,485
March 30, 2025
2,852
July 3, 2024
474
June 14, 2023
1,247
May 19, 2023
9
September 29, 2022
3,076
June 11, 2021
1
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 11,144 accessions is 7.78, with minimum score of 4.65 and maximum score of 9.55.