The EDGB was established in 1997

Our Location In North Sinai

The Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank (EDGB) is located 12 km from north-eastern border of the Arab Republic of Egypt, about 35 km east of the town of El Arish .

Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank

EDGB bank function as Ex-situ conservation The EDGB was established in 1997 for accomplished the following mandates

including three units for the seed preservation controlled and monitoring ( Drying room, Short term and Long term seed store room)

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The effort to maintain the world’s biodiversity has taken another hit. In the chaos surrounding the political unrest and public uprising in Egypt, looters have badly damaged the country’s Desert Research Center Desert Research Center in El Sheikh Zowaid in North Sinai. The center houses the Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank (EDGB), and according to the Global Crop Diversity Trust equipment has been stolen and the cooling system has been damaged.

Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank was looted and damaged amidst Egypt’s political unrest

(28 Jan. 2011)

General sequence of operations in EDGB .

Update of EDGB

Update of EDGB machines

EDGB Lab.

Seed cleaning Lab.

Seed cleaning is the removal of debris, inertmaterial, damaged and infected seeds, and seedsof other species to improve the quality of samples for storage

Seed quality Lab.

Seed viability testingSeed health testingSeed moisture content

EDGB Lab.

Documentation Lab.Seed Drying and packaging Lab.

The best time to package seeds is immediately after moisture content has been determined to be within the required limits for safe storage .

It is important that genebanks keep records of germplasm recipients, the number of samples sent, accession details and the purpose forwhich requests are made in order to track the use and assess the impact of distributed germplasm

Documentation system (GRIS 2006)

Herbarium EDGB

Re-opening in April 2013

Update and collected several wild species (Sinai 2013)

ConservationConservationUtilizationUtilization

Main TargetMain Target

UtilizationUtilization

Field Gene Bank for wild tree Including several important wild species as Jatropha cuneata, Acacia, Balanites aegyptiaca and Moringa sp.

Utilization of Moringa sp.

Moringa oleifera Moringa stenopetala

Field experiment under North Sinai conditions

* Optimal doses of fertilization under high levels of salinity*325 gm Ammonium sulfate.*325 gm Superphosphate.*200 gm Potassium sulfate.*3.2 kg. Composte.

Utilization of Moringa sp.

The leaves of Moringa were Antioxidants and Inflammation

The leaves were used in folk remedies for tumors (Narah et al., 2012)

Field Gene Bank for some important wild medicinal plants

Origanum syriacum Mentha longifoliaUrginea maritima

Utilization of some important medicinal plants

Through our several research work under North Sinai condition, we are recommend the use of high organic fertilization with Humic acid under the high level of salinity, to increase the production and ability for resistance.

Salvia officinalis

Rosmarinus officinalis

• Commonly known as rosemary• Improving memory • Contains a number of potentially biologically active compounds,

including antioxidants carnosic acid and rosmarinic acid• Treat gout.

Mentha longifolia

Production of seedlings

Origanum syriacum. L

Improve the cultivated area

Production of seedlings

Some of research work

Comparative genetic study among Origanum L. plants grown in Egypt

Mohamed Hamdy Amar and Mohamed Abd El Wahab (2013)

Effect of organic fertilization on yield and active constituents of Thymus vulgaris L. under North Sinai

conditions (Ateia E.M. et al., 2009)

Effect of essential oils of some aromatic plants from family

Labiatae on the genetic behavior and growth of pathogenic fung Esraa Elsherbeny )2014 (

Some of research work

Molecular genetic studies on some natural Medicinal plants

(Injy mohamed 2009)

Genetic studies in some medicinal plants of the Liliaceae family

M.Sc. 2005 by Rasha moustafa

Antimicrobial effect of some essential oil mixtures

(Osman Y.A.H. et al., 2009)

Taxonomy Is the classification of organisms

according to similarity, has been richly informed by phylogenetics but remains methodologically and logically distinct. The fields overlap however in the science of phylogenetic systematics where only phylogenetic trees are used to delimit taxa, each representing a group of lineage-connected individuals.

Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms (e.g., species, populations), which is discovered through molecular sequencing data.

Taxonomy phylogenetic

PhylogenetiPhylogeneticc

systematicssystematics

PhylogenetiPhylogeneticc

systematicssystematics

In PomegranateIn PomegranateGenetic investigation of pomegranate genotypes tolerant to drought using

morphological, physiological and

molecular markers

  Punica granatum

In AlmondIn AlmondEvaluation of genetic diversity among some genotypes in almond (Evaluation of genetic diversity among some genotypes in almond ( Prunus Prunus dulcisdulcis L.) L.)

PhylogenetiPhylogeneticc

systematicssystematics

Self-compatibi l i ty allele (Sf)Self-compatibi l i ty allele (Sf) self- incompatible (SI)self- incompatible (SI)

. Self- incompatibil i ty is controlled by a Self- incompatibil i ty is controlled by a mult i-al lel ic, single gene (S-locus).mult i-al lel ic, single gene (S-locus).

S-alleles identity is part icularly important S-alleles identity is part icularly important for designing crosses and choosing for designing crosses and choosing parents for breeding self-compatible parents for breeding self-compatible cult ivars cult ivars

In PeachIn PeachAssessment of genetic diversity in some genotypes of peach (Assessment of genetic diversity in some genotypes of peach ( Prunus Prunus persicapersica .L) .L)

PhylogenetiPhylogeneticc

systematicssystematics

One of the endangered species in North SinaiOne of the endangered species in North Sinai

Future Goals

• Collection and conservation of wild species in nature reserves as a cooperation with Ministry of Environment and National Gene Bank .

Dr. Mohamed Amar Tel: 01001591950

Egyptian Deserts Gene BankNorth Sinai Research Station

Email:

mohamedamar70@gmail.comWelcome to EDGB

Thank you for your attention