USDA introduced multi-year plan to strengthen U.S. Genebank management of plant germplasm
On Nov. 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announced the National Strategic Germplasm and Cultivar Collection…
The U.S. General Accounting Office released a scathing report on the National Plant Germplasm System
On Dec. 4, 1981, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report on the National Plant Germplasm…
The IBPGR project to develop a standardized computer system for germplasm was cancelled due to cost
In 1977, the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) having inherited from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s…
The National Plant Germplasm System was established
In 1974, n an attempt to bring order to the loosely structured state/federal new-crops research program, the National…
Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia) replanted war destroyed rice germplasm with IRRI samples collected in 1973
In 1982, having lost, neglected, or eaten to extinction most of its local rice varieties during the recent…