Mobilization of plant genetic resources from South and Southeast Asia

The article is devoted to the replenishment of the VIR collection with plant genetic resources from the territories of the Philippines, Burma, Laos and Vietnam as a result of plant explorations, seed requests and germplasm exchange. In total, four collecting missions were sent to this region in the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: N. P. Loskutova, T. M. Ozerskaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources 2021-04-01
Series:Труды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции
Subjects:
Online Access:https://elpub.vir.nw.ru/jour/article/view/886
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1832545012495155200
author N. P. Loskutova
T. M. Ozerskaya
author_facet N. P. Loskutova
T. M. Ozerskaya
author_sort N. P. Loskutova
collection DOAJ
description The article is devoted to the replenishment of the VIR collection with plant genetic resources from the territories of the Philippines, Burma, Laos and Vietnam as a result of plant explorations, seed requests and germplasm exchange. In total, four collecting missions were sent to this region in the late 1970s and 1980s.Through their efforts, 2668 germplasm samples were collected and delivered to the Institute. The most numerous were the accessions of grain legumes (916), followed by vegetables (835) and groat crops (653). In addition to direct collection, the Institute was constantly engaged in requesting plant germplasm.In the prewar period, from 1925 to 1941, 396 accessions of cereal, groat, grain legume, vegetable, industrial and fruit crops were received from Burma, Vietnam, French Indochina (Laos since 1949) and the Philippines.From 1946 to 2019, 7928 accessions were added, with the largest number shipped from Vietnam (7840). Such a huge number can be explained by the activities of the Soviet breeding stations in Lai Châu Province, Northern Vietnam, and near Ho Chi Minh City, Southern Vietnam, in the 1980s and early 1990s. It should be noted that significantly fewer wild species and crop wild relatives were mobilized from these countries than from India, Indonesia and Ceylon – about 100 spp., or 10,992 accessions.Altogether, collecting teams brought from the South Asian tropical center of crop origin 18,594 germplasm samples, most of which were groat crops (4521). The prewar seed requests yielded 3520 accessions, with 1022 representing tropical woody, ornamental and medicinal plants from botanical gardens. Requests for germplasm from 1946 to the present time resulted in adding 16,687 accessions to the collection, half of which were groat crops (rice, maize and sorghum). A total of 39,161 accessions were received from the region.
format Article
id doaj-art-25dbe49a19eb4fa8aa804cdf3c84e168
institution Kabale University
issn 2227-8834
2619-0982
language English
publishDate 2021-04-01
publisher N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources
record_format Article
series Труды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции
spelling doaj-art-25dbe49a19eb4fa8aa804cdf3c84e1682025-02-03T08:31:13ZengN.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic ResourcesТруды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции2227-88342619-09822021-04-01182118619810.30901/2227-8834-2021-1-186-198514Mobilization of plant genetic resources from South and Southeast AsiaN. P. Loskutova0T. M. Ozerskaya1N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic ResourcesN.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic ResourcesThe article is devoted to the replenishment of the VIR collection with plant genetic resources from the territories of the Philippines, Burma, Laos and Vietnam as a result of plant explorations, seed requests and germplasm exchange. In total, four collecting missions were sent to this region in the late 1970s and 1980s.Through their efforts, 2668 germplasm samples were collected and delivered to the Institute. The most numerous were the accessions of grain legumes (916), followed by vegetables (835) and groat crops (653). In addition to direct collection, the Institute was constantly engaged in requesting plant germplasm.In the prewar period, from 1925 to 1941, 396 accessions of cereal, groat, grain legume, vegetable, industrial and fruit crops were received from Burma, Vietnam, French Indochina (Laos since 1949) and the Philippines.From 1946 to 2019, 7928 accessions were added, with the largest number shipped from Vietnam (7840). Such a huge number can be explained by the activities of the Soviet breeding stations in Lai Châu Province, Northern Vietnam, and near Ho Chi Minh City, Southern Vietnam, in the 1980s and early 1990s. It should be noted that significantly fewer wild species and crop wild relatives were mobilized from these countries than from India, Indonesia and Ceylon – about 100 spp., or 10,992 accessions.Altogether, collecting teams brought from the South Asian tropical center of crop origin 18,594 germplasm samples, most of which were groat crops (4521). The prewar seed requests yielded 3520 accessions, with 1022 representing tropical woody, ornamental and medicinal plants from botanical gardens. Requests for germplasm from 1946 to the present time resulted in adding 16,687 accessions to the collection, half of which were groat crops (rice, maize and sorghum). A total of 39,161 accessions were received from the region.https://elpub.vir.nw.ru/jour/article/view/886collecting missionplant genetic resourcescoll ectiongermplasm
spellingShingle N. P. Loskutova
T. M. Ozerskaya
Mobilization of plant genetic resources from South and Southeast Asia
Труды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции
collecting mission
plant genetic resources
coll ection
germplasm
title Mobilization of plant genetic resources from South and Southeast Asia
title_full Mobilization of plant genetic resources from South and Southeast Asia
title_fullStr Mobilization of plant genetic resources from South and Southeast Asia
title_full_unstemmed Mobilization of plant genetic resources from South and Southeast Asia
title_short Mobilization of plant genetic resources from South and Southeast Asia
title_sort mobilization of plant genetic resources from south and southeast asia
topic collecting mission
plant genetic resources
coll ection
germplasm
url https://elpub.vir.nw.ru/jour/article/view/886
work_keys_str_mv AT nploskutova mobilizationofplantgeneticresourcesfromsouthandsoutheastasia
AT tmozerskaya mobilizationofplantgeneticresourcesfromsouthandsoutheastasia