Q.What do you know about Germplasm conservation. Describe it.

Step 1. Germplasm conservation refers to the conservation of living genetic resources - pollen, seeds or tissue of plant material - maintained for the purposes of selective plant breeding, preservation in a living condition, and use in research.

Step 2. In practice, it is largely built around collecting seeds and pollen and storing them in dedicated seed banks or pollen banks, so their viability and fertility are maintained for later use.

Step 3. That later use includes hybridization and crop improvement work, where breeders need access to a wide range of genetically diverse material.

Step 4. At a larger scale, germplasm conservation can also involve gene banks and DNA banks holding the genetic material of elite breeding lines. …

Define germplasm conservation, name the storage forms (seed/pollen/gene/DNA banks) and state its purposes (br …

• Describing only seed banks and omitting pollen, gene and DNA banks. …