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New storage facilities for CIAT's germplasm

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Title New storage facilities for CIAT's germplasm
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description The Genetic Resources Unit (GRU) of the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) recently completed the construction of new facilities for storing bean, cassava and tropical pasture germplasm.



The facilities comprise a cold room (-20C), capable of holding 100,000 samples of seed on a long-term basis, a cold room (5-8C), with an equal capacity for medium-term storage; a drying room, and a tissue culture laboratory where the world's collection of cassava is maintained in vitro.



The GRU has assumed responsibility for the conservation and exchange of disease free cassava germplasm, previously a responsibility of the Biotechnology Research Unit. It has also taken over the conservation of the grass and legume forage accession, as well as their botanic characterization, a task previously performed by the Tropical Pastures Programme.



CIAT



Apartado 6713



Cali



COLOMBIA
The Genetic Resources Unit (GRU) of the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) recently completed the construction of new facilities for storing bean, cassava and tropical pasture germplasm. The facilities comprise a cold room (-20C),...
 
Date 2014-10-08T13:16:23Z
2014-10-08T13:16:23Z
1990
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 1990. New storage facilities for CIAT's germplasm . Spore 30. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45406
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore, Spore 30
 
Publisher CTA
 
Source Spore