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The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (1991)
Board on Agriculture (BOA)

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MANAGING GLOBAL GENETIC RESOURCES: The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System

TABLE 2-1 Crop-Related Responsibilities in the National Plant Germplasm System

Facility and Location

Primary Crops or Species Conserved

Regional plant introduction station

 

Western, Pullman, Washington

Common bean, garlic, Allium (onion) species, lupine, safflower, chickpea, wild rye, lettuce, lentil, alfalfa, forage grasses, horsebean, common vetch, milkvetch

Southern, Griffin, Georgia

Sweet potato, sorghum, peanut, pigeon pea, forage grasses, forage legumes, cowpea, mung bean, peppers, okra, melons, sesame, eggplant

Northeast, Geneva, New York

Tomato, birdsfoot trefoil, pea, clover, brassicas, onion

North-Central, Ames, Iowa

Maize, amaranth, oil-seed brassicas (e.g., rape, canola, mustard), sweet clover, cucumber, pumpkin, summer squash, acorn squash, zucchini, gourds, beet, carrot, sunflower, millets

National clonal germplasm repository

 

Corvallis, Oregon

Filberts, pears, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry, blueberry, mint, hops

Davis, California

Grape, stone fruits, walnut, almond, pistachio, persimmon, olive, fig, pomegranate, mulberry, kiwi

Geneva, New York

Grape, apple

Miami, Florida, and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Banana, mango, avocado, Brazil nut, Chinese date, jujube, coffee, cacao, soursop, bamboo, sugarcane, cassava, tropical yam, cocoyam

Orlando, Florida

Citrus

Hilo, Hawaii

Macadamia, guava, passion fruit, barbados cherry, breadfruit, jackfruit, pineapple, papaya, lychee, Canarium (pili nut), Guiliema (peach palm), Nephelium (rambutan, pulasan), carambola

Brownwood, Texas

Pecan, hickory, chestnut

Riverside/Brawley, California

Citrus and related genera, date

Other facilities

 

National Arboretum, Washington, D.C.

Woody ornamental species

National Small Grains Collection, Aberdeen Idaho

Barley, oats, wheat, triticale, rye, rice, Aegilops (wild wheat relatives)

Interregional Research Project (IR-1), Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Potato

Urbana, Illinois

Short-season soybean

Stoneville, Mississippi

Long-season soybean

College Station, Texas

Cotton

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