According to a seed industry conference held in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province, China has collected 124,000 new agricultural germplasm resources since the country’s third census in 2015.
Many of these resources are one-of-a-kind not only in terms of their importance in scientific research, but also in the study of local culture and special functions in food and healthcare. During the ongoing 2023 China Seed Congress and Nanfan Agricultural Silicon Valley Forum, Liu Xu, an academic of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, stated.
“For the next step, we’ll write and publish the census work report, analyzing the current situation and development trend of agricultural germplasm resources in China and providing scientific suggestions for strengthening germplasm resource protection and utilization,” Liu said.
In recent years, China has accelerated the cataloguing and storage of germplasm resources. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences have established world-class national crop and marine fishery biological germplasm resource banks.