The National Germplasm Resources Laboratory ( NGRL ) , located at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center ( BARC ) , Beltsville , MD , is responsible for a number of activities that support the entire NPGS . The Plant Introduction ...

Further , recognizing the need for the fast , yet safe movement of plant germplasm , and being aware that safe plant health measures are essential to effective plant germplasm exchanges , minimizing or eliminating the risk of ...

Strategies for increasing the use of germplasm . In : Pioneer H - Bred International , Inc. Report of the Latin American Plan Breeding Research Forum - Latin America's Plant Resources : Abundant Food Supplies for the Future .

Tissue culture techniques are of great interest for the collection , multiplication and storage of plant germplasm ( Engelmann , 1991 ) . Tis- sue culture systems enable propagation of plant material with high multiplication rates in an ...

Questions were asked about their use of primitive cultivars of crop plants and about medicinal plant uses in general . Most of the plant use information obtained from these interviews ( Table 4 ) , was already reported in either Pittier ...

E. Safe Exchange of Germplasm Considering that the transportation of plant germplasm for collection , study and genetic improvement among institutions , countries and regions of the world poses the danger of possible introduction of new ...

Financial benefits from PBR have not yet been a factor in assigning resources in plant breeding . 57 2. Germplasm of cultivated crops includes : ( a ) Modern cultivars : high - yielding elite varieties which have been developed by ...