Center for Pacific Crops and Trees

The Pacific Community's Center for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT) , formerly the Regional Germplasm Center (RGC), is a seed bank operated by the Pacific Community (SPC) 's Land Resources Division. Their purpose is to store and preserve seeds from the Pacific region. The facility is located in Fiji and is the successor to several local seed banks that have been difficult to maintain. The center uses modern methods of cryopreservation and plant reproduction .

See also

• Svalbard Global Seed Vault
• Seed saving

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Normah, MN: Conservation of tropical species plans . Springer, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-3776-5 (English).
2. ↑ Vulnerability of Pacific crops addressed by CePaCT Scoop Media, July 2012
3. ^ Center for Pacific Crops and Trees , SPC Land Resources Division
4. ^ Agrobiodiversity challenges in the Pacific , Anne Moorhead, March 2010, New Agriculturalist
5. ↑ Plant bank to preserve biodiversity of Pacific crops , SciDevNet