Location: Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center
Title: Curating the USDA-ARS National Small Grain Rice World Collection and the Genetic Stocks Oryza CollectionAuthor
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Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 3/23/2022 Publication Date: 3/24/2022 Citation: Huggins, T.D. 2022. Curating the USDA-ARS National Small Grain Rice World Collection and the Genetic Stocks Oryza Collection. Computational Systems Biology Seminar, March 23, 2022. Meeting Abstract. Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: Genebanks are an important source of genetic diversity for food crops worldwide. They are systematically assembled and maintained and offer valuable information for use by plant breeders to improve agricultural productivity and nutritional quality. Challenges faced by genebanks include providing sufficient and accurate trait information to facilitate searching the collection, controlling redundant accessions, seed mixtures, misidentified accessions, and genetic gaps, as well as lack of resources to thoroughly characterize collections. The National Small Grains Collection (NSGC) was established to house all small grain crops including rice, wheat, oat, barley, rye, and triticale. The NSGC maintains 19, 132 rice accessions, and the Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center maintains approximately 38,000 rice accessions through the Genetic Stocks Oryza (GSOR) collection. |
