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Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources in India 15regional base collections of more than a dozen crops. The firstInternational Okra Workshop was organized at N<strong>BP</strong>GR in 1990under the sponsorship of IPGRI. Besides the IPGRI experts,representatives from Belgium, France, Brazil, China, India,Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Philippines,Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan and USA participated in the deliberations.An International Workshop on Sesame Genetic Resources wasorganized at Nagpur and at N<strong>BP</strong>GR Regional Station, Akola(Maharashtra) in 1993.INDO~US PGR ProjectThe Indian National Plant Genetic Resources Programme(IN-PGRP) has gained substantially from the PGR systemsadopted by leading nations in this field yet it has not whollyadopted any of their models. India is panistakingly developingits own indigenous system taking full advantage of its inherentadvantages and incorporating suitable features that have beenevolved over a long period of time by repeated trials in developedcountries. N<strong>BP</strong>GR is currently operating a 9 years INDO-USProject on Plant Genetic Resources with a budget provision of 27.95million US dollars. This project is being implemented to enhanceN<strong>BP</strong>GR's national capability and also to enhance its role at theregional and international levels.N<strong>BP</strong>GR'S National Information SystemThe Bureau is gradually strengthening its computerizeddata-base to back up conservation of genetic resources for not onlyimmediate utilization of already conserved and evaluated/characterized germplasm in the ongoing plant breeding programmesbut also meeting needs of future generations. Success of both theseactivities is dependent upon the availability of descriptive andevaluation information on accessions stored in the gene bank.National database system gathers all relevant data from diversesources that are required by user scientists. Selection ofappropriate descriptors and their descriptor states, softwarecomputer programmes and retrieval system are pre-requisites todevelopment of computerized information on genetic resources.Success of genetic resources database management depends uponeffective cooperation among genetic resources personnel,computer experts and plant breeders/biotechnologists.

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