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Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture
Volume 6
Advances in Crop Science and Technology
ISSN: 2329-8863
Agri World 2018
March 05-07, 2018
Integrated germplasm management system for sustainable use of the genetic resources
Lee Sun-Young, Young-Wang Na, Moon-Sup Yoon, Ho-Cheol Ko, Sok-Young Lee, Eun-Ae Yoo, Gi-An Lee, Young-ah Jeon, Jung-sook Sung
and
Seong-
Han Sohn
National Agro-Biodiversity Center, Republic of Korea
G
enetic resources play an important role not only in the supply and demand of food, but also as a high-value-added material
for biological industries such as in breeding new varieties and new drug development. National Agro-Biodiversity Center
(NAC) under Rural Development Administration in South Korea currently preserves germplasm resources consists of 252,102
plant seeds, 23,387 microorganisms and 375 insects (Jan.2018). Since 2000, the ‘Integrated germplasm management system
(GMS)’ which integrates information on plant, microbial, and insect germplasm, has been successfully implemented in the
GeneBank to safely preserve and efficiently manage germplasm. Through the GMS, not only have the basic information’s’
on scientific name, germplasm name, germplasm status, origin, collection place, date of collection, but also have additional
information’s such as physiological characteristics, morphological characteristics, functional components and disease
resistance information which are provided to the user via website. In order to make it convenient for GeneBank staffs to
handle germplasm, information’s on the regeneration, input to the storage room for preservation, and output from the storage
room for distribution, have been reflected in real time. In addition, for user’s convenience, the GMS has been improved in the
system, so that users can request for distribution of germplasm on-line conveniently. NAC distributed a total 18,308 accession
for Research and Development in 2017. Recently, we have also developed a pc-GMS program that can be easily installed in
laboratory computers. Moreover, the pc-GMS program was distributed to the Southeast Asian countries those who have rich
source of genetic resources but have difficulties in GeneBank management. Additionally, this year, we are planning to upgrade
the GMS to integrate plant viral germplasm.
Biography
Lee Sun-Young has experience on evaluation and passion in improving the germplasm management system in RDA, Korea. Her research involves research and
development for new DB construction program; the improvement of germplasm management system and constructing the plant genetic recourses information
system. She has also registered 6 programs under intellectual property rights.
lleesy@korea.krLee Sun-Young et al., Adv Crop Sci Tech 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2329-8863-C1-006