Division of Germplasm Conservation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Pusa Campus, New Delhi-110012, India
*Author for Correspondence: Email-sherry.jacob@icar.gov.in
Online Published on 07 November, 2022.
“Cherish variations, for without it life will perish” – Sir Otto Frankel
The global system for conservation of plant genetic resources (PGR) is a pan-continental network integrating more than 2000 national and international genebanks out of which 130 genebanks hold more than 10,000 accessions and eight have more than 100,000 accessions. As per the PGR Genesys platform, accessions conserved in ex situ genebanks comprise more than 4 million maintained by over 450 institutes across the globe. Accumulation of huge quantity of germplasm accessions of unknown value and genetic composition within genebanks made its inclusion in crop breeding, economically unmanageable. This article provides some of the new age tools and methodologies being applied for more effective management of genebanks.
Digital Sequence Information, Genome-wide association studies, Genomic selection, Machine learning, Pan-genome studies
