ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi-110012, India
*Author for Correspondence: Email- anjula.pandey@icar.gov.in
Online published on 24 June, 2022.
Landrace diversity in rice was enriched at the National Herbarium of Cultivated Plants (NHCP), ICAR-NBPGR, New Delhi with addition of over 1,000 herbarium specimens. The samples were selected from material grown for characterization under an ICAR-DBT project on “Mainstreaming rice landraces diversity in varietal development through genome-wide association studies: a model for large-scale utilization of gene bank collections of rice”. The paper discusses the role of NHCP in preserving landraces of rice and follow same model to other crop landraces. Addition of 17 important landraces with their characters and associated passport information data would help the users working in different fields.
