EXPEDITIONS OF THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES IN 2004 SHORT COMMUNICATION

摘要

In order to collect local crop plant populations and their accompanying species a collection missions are organized. Due to fragmented farming economy until contemporary times local forms of crop plants are still well preserved in Poland. The idea ofcollecting, keeping and using of the plant genetic resources dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. The tradition of collecting genetic material in Poland is almost a hundred years old. It was initiated by Professor Miczynski, senior, the chancellor of the School of Agriculture in Dublany, and was then continued by Professor Lucjan Kaznowski, employed in the State Research Institute of Rural Economy in Pulawy. Since 1915 he collected and examined national varieties of clover, vetch and other crop plants. In 1971 the collection of crop plants established by Professor Kaznowski was moved to the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (PBAI) at Radzikow. In 1979 basing on an inter-department agreement and a network of previously founded leading collections located in different research centers the National Institute of Genetic Resources was established in PBAI (currently National Centre for Plant Genetic Resources, 'Bank of Genes'). The aim of the Program for Protection of Crop Plants Genetic Resources is to preserve the genetic material of the most important crop plants and their wild growing 'relatives' for the purposes of breeding protection and research. The role of gene banks is not only collecting and storing of genetic resource but also evaluation of the collected material.