The U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) plant collections are a critical source of genetic diversity for breeding and selection of improved crops, including vegetatively propagated plants. Information on these collections is ...
spp. Germplasm Management: Microsatellite Fingerprinting of USDA–ARS National Plant Germplasm System Collection Irish B, Cuevas E, Simpson A, Scheffler E, Sardos J, Ploetz R, et al. Musa spp. Germplasm management: microsatellite fingerprinting of USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System Collection....
The US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) plant collections are a critical source of genetic diversity for breeding and selection of improved crops, including vegetatively propagated plants. Information on these collections is readily...
Assessment of phenotypic diversity in the USDA, National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) guayule germplasm collectionPlant genetic resourcesMorphological diversityGermplasm conservationMorphometricsAsteraceaeRUBBER-BEARING GUAYULEPARTHENIUM-ARGENTATUMSEED SIZEMORPHOLOGY...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), Plant Genetic Resources Unit apple (Malus) collection in Geneva, NY, conserves over 2500 trees as grafted clones. We have compared the genotypes of 1131 diploid Malus xdomestica cultivars ...
The USDA has communicated a strategy to support its Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-run National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). The 10-year National Strategic Germplasm and Cultivar Collection Assessment and Utilization Plan aims to address challenges facing operations and research involving plant ...
Forage potential of Opuntia clones maintained by the USDA, National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) collection. Crop Sci. 46:2161-2168.Felker P, Paterson A, Jenderek MM (2006) Forage potential of Opuntia clones maintained by the USDA, national plant germplasm system (NPGS) collection. Crop Sci ...
There are several Central Asian Malus species and varieties in the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) apple collection. Malus sieversii is the most comprehensively collected species native to Central Asia. Other taxa such as M. sieversii var. kirghisorum, M. sieversii var. turkmen...
preservation and utilization of these materials depends upon knowledge of the genetic variation present within the collection.Here we use the high-throughput genotyping-by-sequencing(GBS)technology to characterize the United States National Plant Germplasm System(NPGS)collection of cucumber(Cucumis sativus ...
The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) maintains a citrus genetic resource collection of 1522 accessions of Citrus cultivars and crop wild relatives. Of these, 540 are maintained as pathogen-free duplicate clones in a screenhouse at the National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus ...