Collection of crop germplasm from Nagaland State of India.

摘要

An exploratory trip was conducted in Nagaland, India, from 12 to 26 December 2003 to collect underutilized plants, endemic plant species, rare and endangered economic plants, primitive cultivars, landraces and obsolete cultivars. The basic purpose was to collect the propagative material in the form of either vegetative or seed material and to identify useful traits/genes that may contribute in crop improvement purposes and simultaneously to make an assessment on genetic erosion. A total of 327 accessions were collected, which belongs to different crop groups. The variability on cereal crops and grain legumes were included and represented due to their remarkable variation observed within the genotypes. The observations on the collected genotypes are summarized..