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Author Staff, National Research Council

Title U.S. National Plant Germplasm System
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Contents ""Managing Global Genetic Resources""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""GERMPLASM: A RESOURCE AND A RESPONSIBILITY""; ""AN OVERVIEW OF THE SYSTEM""; ""Collections and Facilities""; ""Support for the System""; ""LEADERSHIP AND ADVISORY FUNCTIONS""; ""FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Administration""; ""Options for Achieving National Coordination""; ""Advisory Groups""; ""Germplasm Acquisition and Collections""; ""Facilities and Personnel""; ""The Mission of the National System""; ""International Policies and Cooperation""
""Information Management""""Research""; ""1 Managing Crop Genetic Resources ""; ""GERMPLASM AND GERMPLASM COLLECTIONS""; ""PRESERVING PLANT GERMPLASM""; ""THE CHALLENGES OF CONSERVING AND MANAGING PLANT GERMPLASM""; ""STRUCTURE OF A GERMPLASM MANAGEMENT PROGRAM""; ""The Diversity and Size of Collections""; ""Management and Global Responsibility""; ""PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES IN THE UNITED STATES""; ""The Foundation of Crop Improvement""; ""Importance to Society and the Environment""; ""International Exchange""; ""ORIGINS OF THE NATIONAL SYSTEM""
""Development of Germplasm Activities in the United States""""Emergence of the NPGS""; ""2 Elements of the National Plant Germplasm System ""; ""GENETIC RESOURCES IN THE UNITED STATES""; ""ACQUISITION""; ""Plant Introduction Office""; ""Plant Exploration""; ""National Plant Germplasm Quarantine Center""; ""Interregional Research Project-2""; ""CONSERVATION""; ""Active Collections""; ""Regional Plant Introduction Stations""; ""National Clonal Germplasm Repositories""; ""Interregional Research Project-1""; ""National Small Grains Collection""; ""Other Crop Collections""
""Genetic Stock Collections""""National Arboretum""; ""Base Collections""; ""National Seed Storage Laboratory""; ""Vegetatively Propagated Germplasm""; ""MANAGEMENT""; ""Seed Viability Testing""; ""Regeneration and Multiplication""; ""Distribution""; ""Characterization and Evaluation""; ""Documentation""; ""UTILIZATION""; ""Colleges, Universities, and the National System""; ""Private Industry and the NPGS""; ""PLANT GERMPLASM ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE NATIONAL SYSTEM""; ""Botanical Gardens and Arboreta""; ""Nongovernmental Activities and Private Collections""
""3 Administration of the National System """"THE NPGS IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE""; ""The Agricultural Research Service""; ""System of Personnel Classification and Promotion""; ""The Cooperative State Research Service""; ""State Agricultural Experiment Stations""; ""Other USDA Cooperators""; ""ADVISERS TO THE SYSTEM""; ""The National Plant Genetic Resources Board""; ""The National Plant Germplasm Committee""; ""The Crop Advisory Committees""; ""Technical Committees and Technical Advisory Committees""; ""The Plant Germplasm Operations Committee""
Notes ""4 Prescription for Effectiveness ""
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Subject National Plant Germplasm System (U.S.)
SUBJECT National Plant Germplasm System (U.S.) fast (OCoLC)fst00662292
Subject Crops -- Germplasm resources -- United States
Germplasm resources, Plant -- United States -- Management
Crops -- Germplasm resources.
Germplasm resources, Plant -- Management.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780309572064
0309572061