Germplasm collections and breeding needs in Europe
1988
Peeters, J.P. | Galwey, N.W.
Finding new ways to increase usage of germplasm from national genebanks for crop improvement remains an international challenge. Collections still appear deficient both in the quality and quantity of the data that describe the samples and this is clearly limiting the flow of material. Based on a survey of European breeders for two crops, it appears that breeders in developed countries often maintain substantial working collections and furthermore that material from these collections is commonly exchanged among the breeders. While the variability in toto in these working collections generally appears to be more than adequate for most present needs, there is a strong and continuing interest by breeders in gaining access to novel variability. It is suggested that to maximize the utility of collections, increased emphasis should be placed on studying and assembling small sub-collections that contain representative samples of the available diversity.
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