Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, Post Box 48, Hazaribag 825 301 (Bihar).
1 Directorate of Wheat Research, Post Box 158, Karnal 132 001.
Rich diversity in rice exists in the plateau region of Bihar owing to diverse growing situations and low coverage under modern high yielding varieties. There is an urgent need to collect and conserve this rich wealth of diversity before genetic erosion depletes this useful genepool. This paper presents an account of current status of genetic resource programme in the region and suggests. intensification of coordinated efforts in collection, in situ and ex situ conservation, evaluation, cataloguing and utilization.
Rice genetic resources, plateau region Bihar, collection, evaluation, conservation, utilization
