The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), New Delhi holds the responsibility to conserve germplasm of agri-horticultural crop plants. The long-term Base collection is maintained in built-in cold store vaults of pre-fabricated polyurethene insulated panels running at −20°C. Over 1,44,100 germplasm accessions are stored as Base Collections in National Genebank. These consist of cereals and pseudo cereals (62,423), millets and minor millets (15,783), oilseeds (20,520), pulses (25,527), fibre crops (3,607), vegetables (7,615), medicinal and aromatic plants (179) and improved/released varieties (888) of various crops.
Germplasm, conservation, genebank, desiccation tolerent seeds
