TABLE 2.4.

Some important germplasm world collections(except international institutes)

Germplasm world collection Crop
Bambey, Senegal Groundnut
Beltsville, U.S.A. Small grain crops
Cambridge, U.K. Potato
Canal Point, Florida Sugarcane
NationalCentre for Genetic Resourcespreservation, 268,000 accessions (in 2009)
Fort, Collins, U.S.A.
Plant Introduction Stations, U.S.A. —197,000accessions of 4,000 species (in 2010)
Ethiopia,Africa Coffee
Instituteof Plant Industry, Leningard (USSR) Ca. 1,60,000entries of crop plants
Near Tashkent, USSR Annual New World Cotton
New Zealand Sweet potato
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England Over 45,000 entries of crop plants
Wisconsin, U.S.A. Potato
 TABLE 2.5. Status of germplasm holdings in the National Genebank at —180C(as on 31stDecemth
2006) at NBPGR, New Delhi
Crop Number of Crop Number
accessions access'

Paddy (rice) 78,714 Fibre crops 9,546

38,046 Brinjal 3,724
Maize 6,912 Chillies 1,997
Others I O, 749
Others 15,480
Cereals
Vegetables 21,201
Sorghum 18,655
Custard apple 58
Pealmillet 7,436
Minor millets Papaya 23
19,025
Others Others 184
3,541
Millets and forages 48,657 Fruits 265
Amaranth 4,549 Opium poppy 349
Buckwheat 638 Ocimum 342
Others 305 Tobacco 1,460
Pseudo-cereals 5,492 Others 3,182

Chickpea 15,972 Medicinal and aromatic plants

Pigeonpea 10,798
and narcotics 5,333

Mungbean 3,499 Coriander 412

Others 22,575 Sowa 59

Grain legumes 52,844 Others 1,161

Groundnut 13,414 Spices and condiments 1,632

Brassicas 8,930 Pongam oil tree 327

Safflower 7,346 Others 1,726

Others 17,825 Agroforestry 2,053

Lentil 7,712
Oilseeds 47,515
2,523
Cotton 4,710
Pigeonpea
10,235
Jute 2,837 Duplicate safety-samples
Others 1,999 Total number of accessions
 TABLE 2.6. Active gcrtnplasm holding in
tncdium-term storage (MTS; as on 31 December, 2006)
Crop
Numberof Crop Numberof
accessions
accescions
\Vheat
1,200 Ridge gourd
Maize 275
I ,500 Bitter gourd
Barley IOO
1,340 Pumpkin
Cereals 6
4,040
Radish 172
Pearl millet
200 Fenugreek
Sorghum 350
50 Spinach
Millets and forages 50
250
Pea
Coriander 90
750 Ashgourd
Cowpea 40
1,500
Lentil Onion 90
410
Mungbean 645
Vegetables
Urdbean 450 Faba bean
Chickpea 300
1,000 Rice bean 103
Pulses 4,755 Amaranth
Rapeseed-mustard 3,454 Sesbania 400
Sunflower Crotalaria
168 200
Seasame 550 Under-utilizedcrops 1,050
Linseed
75 Ocimum
Safflower 50
300 Mucuna
Crambe 55
22 Optium poppy
Tarameera 53
20 Psorolea
Lepidium 11
7 Andrographis
Oilseeds 23
4,596 Periwinkle 15
Brinjal
2,000 Ashwagandha 4
Tomato Hyocyamus
925 6
Bottle gourd Medicinaland aromatic plants
300 217
Sponge gourd
250 Total number of accessions 19,556
 2.7. active collections maintained in India at institution,

Institution Germplasm collection

Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur 8,768 entries of cottons (2005)
Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasaragod Plantation crops; 522 accessions
Central Potato Research Institute, Simla Potato; 2,500 accessions
Central Tobacco Research Institute, Rajahmundry Tobacco; 1,500 accessions
Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram Tuber crops other than potato; 3,871 accessions
CRRI, Cuttack More than 30,000 entries of rice
Directorate of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad Oilseeds; 10,550 accessions
Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal Wheat and barley; 7,000 accessions
Project Directorate on Maize, I.A.R.I., New Delhi Maize; 2,500 accessions
Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi Forage and fodder crops; 6,267 accessions
Indian Institute of HorticulturalResearch,Bangalore Tropical fruits; 11,467 accessions
Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kalyanpur,Kanpur Pulses; 5,021 accessions
National Research Centre for Groundnut,Junagarh Groundnut; 6,432 accessions
National Research Centre for Sorghum,Hyderabad Sorghum; 7,366 accessions
National Research Centre for Soybean, Indore Soybean; 2,500 accessions
Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore Over 5,861 entries in sugarcane
Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi Vegetables; 16,139 accessions
T NBLE 2.8. Estimated number of accessionspresent in the gene banks Of some countries and in
the international research institutes (up to 1980s)
Countryflnternational Crops Number of accessions
research institute
China All crops
India All crops 76,000 in 2006)
U.S.A. All crops
U.S.S.R. All crops
CAT* Common bean, cassava, forages 66,000
CIMMYT* Wheat, maize 75,000
Potato, sweet potato 12,000
ICARDA* Cereals, legumes, forages 77 ,ooo
ICRISAT* Sorghum, pearlmillet, chickpea, peanut, pigeonpea 86,000
11TA* Cowpea, rice, root crops 40,000
IRRI* Rice 86,000