Breeding of Fruit and Plantation Crops 2 + 1

Regions in India with rich HGR diversity

• The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), New Delhi, is the nodal institute working on survey, collection, exchange, quarantine, characterization, evaluation, conservation and documentation of PGR, including HGR. It plays a pivotal role in crop improvement and development and diversification of agriculture in India through germplasm introduction from various foreign sources collection within the country and abroad and germplasm supply to plant breeders and other users. International collaboration and infrastructural facilitates were strengthened manifold during 1980s.


• A cold-storage module with a seed storage – of- the state of –art technology. National Gene bank (NGB) was established in 1996 with a storage capacity of 1 million seed accessions. Well-equipped cryo preservation and in vitro conservation facilities were developed to cater to the conservation of HGR, especially recalcitrant seed species and vegetatively propagated materials in 1986.