What is germplasm and how it is maintained?

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Germplasm refers to the genetic resources of an organism. In other words it can be described as total of all the alleles of the genes present in an individual organism. The entire collection (of plants/seeds) having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop is called a germplasm collection. These can be maintained in the following ways:

• These may be in the form of seeds collected and stored in seed banks.
• Growing and maintaining of trees in nurseries.
• Animal breeding lines reared and maintained in gene banks.

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