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Plant Gene Resources of Canada
This advanced and extensive government project’s purpose is to protect, preserve and enhance the genetic diversity of cultivated plants of importance for Canadian agriculture and their wild relatives. This is done by conserving, acquiring, characterizing, evaluating, researching and documenting these living plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. We provide samples of viable germplasm and its associate information fundamental to breeding new crop varieties and for research within Canada and internationally. This contributes to food security, is important for biodiversity protection and strengthens the sustainability of agriculture.
GRIN-Global-CA is a Canadian adaptation of the GRIN-Global genebank information system.
The Crop Trust and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed GRIN-Global and many genebanks around the world use it for collection data management. GRIN-Global-CA allows to inspect the germplasm holdings of Plant Gene Resources of Canada (PGRC), the Canadian Clonal Genebank (CCGB) and the Canadian Potato Genetic Resources (CPGR).
Passport data, characterization data and evaluation data as well as taxonomic information is provided. Germplasm requests can be made using GRIN-Global-CA.