

The European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN), founded in 1994, is a continent-wide network of in situ Forest GenRes collections (http://portal.eufgis.org/), called Genetic Conservation Units (GCUs). The goal of FORGENIUS is to increase the quantity and quality of data in the GCU information system using multiple descriptors from genomics, phenotyping, remote sensing and predictive models, and to make data and analytical tools available in operationally-useful and harmonized standards as a service for users in the fields of conservation, breeding and forest management.
To do this, FORGENIUS will: