Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Assessing a population for seed collection

The most difficult moment for a seed collector is often deciding whether a population meets the minimum quality and quantity standards for seed sampling for a particular purpose or project. This information sheet provides guidelines and a tool - the pre-collection checklist - to help collectors carry out that assessment and ensure that seed collections arriving at the seed bank have the highest possible initial viability and are of sufficient quantity for long-term conservation.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectPlant breeding techniques and approaches
PublisherRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Publication year2014
RegionsGlobal
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typeLearning materials
Resource linkhttp://brahmsonline.kew.org/Content/Projects/msbp/resources/Training/02-Assessing-population.pdf
KeywordsSeed management; Best practices approaches and techniques; Plant breeding
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