The Federal Central Genebank for Agricultural and Horticultural Crops is located at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben. It conserves over 150,000 seed samples of nearly 3,000 different species.

The German Genebank for Grapevine has the goal of preserving the diversity of grape varieties in Germany in the long term. The focus of conservation is on German varieties and varieties with a socio-cultural, local or historical connection to Germany.

The German Genebank for Fruit Crops was founded to ensure the long-term and efficient conservation of fruit genetic resources in Germany and to ensure their availability for research and breeding as well as for fruit-growing and landscaping purposes.

In 2009 the German Genebank for Ornamentals was founded to preserve the diversity of ornamental plant genetic resources and to enable their long-term use.

The Genebank for crop wild relatives preserves the genetic diversity of 300 native wild plant species that are important for the breeding of our cultivated plant species.

NiCoTa GmbH maintains a tobacco collection of about 800 seed samples, located on the area of the “Landwirtschaftliches Technologiezentrum Augustenberg”.