genebanks Archives - Center for Plant Conservation

Cryopreserving Clonal Crops: Increasing Processing Efficiency in Genebanks

Gayle Volk, USDA ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, United States The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System has over 30,000 clonally maintained accessions within its field, screenhouse, greenhouse, and tissue culture collections. These fruit, nut, tuber, and bulb crop collections are usually not duplicated at secondary locations and are vulnerable to biotic, abiotic, and climatic threats. Only about 15% of […]

Genebank Project and Application of Cryopreservation for the Clonal Crops in Japan

Shin-Ichi Yamamoto, Genetic Resources Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) conducts Genebank Project for collecting, conserving, evaluating, multiplying and distributing plants (228,198 accessions), microorganisms (35,407 acc.), animals (1,971 acc.) and DNA materials (394,440 clones) related to agriculture since 1985. The Genetic Resources Center, NARO (NGRC) coordinates […]

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