Plant genetic resources describe the variability within plants that comes from human and natural selection over millennia. Their intrinsic value mainly...

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (also known as ITPGRFA, International Seed Treaty or Plant Treaty) is a comprehensive...

Genetic resources are genetic material of actual or potential value, where genetic material means any material of plant, animal, microbial or other origin...

preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank. There are many reasons to store seeds. One is to preserve the genes that plant breeders need...

Research Service (ARS). Its mission is to conserve the genetic diversity of agriculturally important plants while facilitating the use of germplasm (seeds and...

Forest genetic resources or forest tree genetic resources are genetic resources (i.e., genetic material of actual or future value) of forest shrub and...

Germplasm refers to genetic resources such as seeds, tissues, and DNA sequences that are maintained for the purpose of animal and plant breeding, conservation...

International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) in 1974. In October 1993, IBPGR became the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and...

Genetic resources means genetic material of actual or potential value where genetic material means any material of plant, animal, microbial or other origin...

Nordic plant germplasm via frozen seeds in an abandoned coal mine outside of Longyearbyen. In 2001, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for...

uniform if the plant characteristics are consistent from plant to plant within the variety; stable if the plant characteristics are genetically fixed and therefore...

The Institute of Plant Industry, Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry or N. I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) (in Russian:...

The National Centre for Plant Genetic Resources: Polish Genebank (NCPGR) is a research unit in the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute – National...

Use of Pesticides, Rome, 1985 FAO International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources, Rome, 1983 Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine...

and agriculture. It was established in 1983 as the Commission on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. In 1995, the mandate of the Commission...

served in public institutions working in agricultural biodiversity, plant genetic resources, crop breeding and research management. He was awarded an OBE by...

Animal genetic resources for food and agriculture (AnGR), also known as farm animal genetic resources or livestock biodiversity, are genetic resources (i...

Approaches to the Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources. Rome, Italy: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute. p. 199. ISBN 978-92-9043-444-3...

in Genetic Resource Conservation from the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 2016 Fowler received the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources, given...

Erna Bennett (1925–2012) was a plant geneticist and one of the early pioneers of genetic conservation (biodiversity conservation). She was one of the...

biodiversity is the variety and variability of crops, plants used in agriculture, including their genetic and phenotypic characteristics. It is a subset of...

The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on...

diversity for food crops available under the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). The organization also provides...

Williams, JT; International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, eds. (1989), The Use of Plant Genetic Resources, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press...

Institute of High Altitude Research and the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, and is the second largest seed bank in the world. In the late...

botanical taxonomy term) International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty, or ITPGRFA) Convention on Biological Diversity...

The Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen; Scandinavian: Nordiskt Genresurscenter) is a plant, farm animal and forest conservation, gene resource guardian...

18 October 2007. "Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources". National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources of ICAR (India), Plant Exploration and Collection Division...

(January 1, 2021). "Chapter 5 - Plant genetic resources". In Singh, Dhan Pal; Singh, Asheesh K.; Singh, Arti (eds.). Plant Breeding and Cultivar Development...

Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantains/International Plant Genetic Resources Institute. ISBN 978-2-910810-37-5. Archived from the original (PDF)...