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ICRISAT Genebank- Conserving Biodiversity for Food Security

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/5805/
http://www.apaari.org/publications/apaari-newsletters/newsletter-vol-181-june-2009.html
 
Title ICRISAT Genebank- Conserving Biodiversity for Food Security
 
Creator Upadhyaya, H D
Gowda, C L L
Sastry, D V S S R
 
Subject Genetics and Genomics
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The Rajendra S. Paroda Genebank at ICRISAT, Patancheru,
India serves as a world repository for the ex situ collections of
five mandate crops: sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea
and groundnut, beside six small millets (finger millet, foxtail
millet, little millet, kodo millet, proso millet, and barnyard millet).
With 119,074 accessions assembled from 144 countries, the
collection is currently the largest among the genebanks for these
crops. The collection includes 116,349 cultivated accessions
and 2,725 accessions.............
 
Publisher Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions
 
Date 2009
 
Type Article
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5805/1/APAARI_Newsletter_18_1_2009.pdf
Upadhyaya, H D and Gowda, C L L and Sastry, D V S S R (2009) ICRISAT Genebank- Conserving Biodiversity for Food Security. APAARI Newsletter, 18 (1). pp. 5-6. ISSN 0858-6063