This article provides notes on national bureau of plant genetic resources (NBPGR). The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) has its Headquarters at New Delhi, located at a latitude of 28° 35' N, longitude of 70° 18' E and an altitude of 226 m above mean sea level. The Bureau draws guidelines from the Crop Science Division of ICAR, [...]
After reading this article you will learn about:- 1. Biodiversity and Plant Genetic Resources 2. CGIAR and Gene Banks 3. Bioversity International. Biodiversity and Plant Genetic Resources: Biological diversity - or biodiversity - refers collectively to the variety of life on earth. Biodiversity forms a "web of life" of which human beings are an integral part and upon which they [...]
Polyploids are defined as organisms with other than 2 basic sets of chromosomes, that is, monoploids, triploids, tetraploids, and various aneuploids. Segregation in polyploids differs from that in diploids due to the many different ways in which the chromosomes can pair in a polyploid and due to larger number of alleles segregating at each locus. Judging by the frequency with [...]