The SEEDnet program (South East European Development Network on Plant Genetic Resources) was established with the purpose of supporting the countries in their efforts to establish and strengthen national and regional activities on PGR with special focus on conservation, utilization, collaboration and networking among the stakeholders at both national and regional levels. During this period, SEEDNET project have enormously contributed to the management of vegetable genetic resources in South East countries, in national and regional level. Collaboration among the countries has been crucial for harmonization and transfer of the data and extend the scope of joint activities to the whole range of vegetable crops, obtained new knowledge tool for their conservation, long term preservation of accessions, strengthen collaborations and sharing responsibilities among vegetable working group. In the framework of the regional project “Inventorying and collecting of indigenous onion (Allium cepa L.) and leek Allium porrum L. germplasm for further ex-situ conservation“, coordinated by Macedonia, following the work plan from 2007-2010, 10 countries (Macedonia, Serbia, R. Srpska, Bugaria, Albania, Croatia, BIH, Romania, Slovenia, Kosovo,) have focused on inventory and collecting the onion and leek landraces from predicted areas. The vegetable working groups from participated countries organized several collection missions from 2007 to 2010. As a result of the whole activities from all project partners 584 accessions from 127 areas were inventoried and collected. Collected seed accessions have been documented in the vegetable crop data base accompanied by adequate passport information following the EURISCO descriptors, later transferring to the main database, partially evaluated and uploaded in EURISCO.
