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NRRD Objectives
 
  • Identification of unique accessions in the national collections originating from various important areas of primary genetic diversity.
  • Development of a database on unique accessions with information on their distribution, morphological features and genomic constitution. It would have following areas;
    • Accession area with passport information
    • Characterization area with unique features used in classification/grouping
    • Evaluation area with information on traits of significance or breeding value
    • Development of core collection
    • Validation of core collection through multi-location field evaluation
    • Exploitation of Genomic database to understand genomic constitution of 
various accessions of core representing various genetic and allelic combinations