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Collection of plant genetic resources from Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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Collection of plant genetic resources from Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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Z.Abraham, R.Senthil kumar, K. Joseph John, T.V.R.S.Sharma, N.V. Nair, M.Unnikrishnan, P.M.Kumaran, Johnson K. George, S.Uma, M.Latha, S.S.Malik
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Andaman, Collection, Crop plants, Exploration, Nicobar, Plant biodiversity, Wild relatives
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The Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) group of islands is immensely rich in plant biodiversity. Andaman’s native tribes are hunter-gatherers, sustaining on wild or marine food and practically do not have any cultivation. Diversity in cultivated crops is presently maintained in home gardens by settlers from the mainland and other adjoining countries. The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) through explorations either alone or in association with CARI or with other ICAR institutes has collected 1234 accessions in 48 exploration and collection missions. Variability was collected in rice, cowpea, black gram, green gram, okra, Chinese spinach, ash gourd, taro, cucumber, pumpkin, bottle gourd, ridge gourd, bitter gourd, chilli, greater yam and coconut. Indigenous landraces are absent. The in situ conservation of the wild relatives of crops is well taken care of by a large number of protected forest reserves. The financial support received for this study, which was carried out under the NATP-PB, implemented by PIU, NATP, ICAR, New Delhi is acknowledged. The authors are thankful to Dr. S. K. Sharma (Director, NBPGR), Dr. B. S. Dhillon (Mission Leader, NATPPB and former Director, NBPGR) and Dr. Mahendra Singh (former Head, Germplasm Evaluation Division, NBPGR), for extending the facilities to execute the exploration and collection missions to these islands. The authors also express their sincere gratitude to Shri M. A. Suryanarayana (Senior Scientist & CCPI, CARI) and to the two research as NATP-PB Project at this station, Dr. Lakshmi Narayanan and Shri Cherian Varghese for their valuable assistance. |
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2019-04-02T08:40:55Z
2019-04-02T08:40:55Z 2008-03-26 |
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Research Paper
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0925-9864 (for print) 1573-5109 ( for electronic version) http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/17896 |
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English
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springer
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