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Inspecting seeds in the cold room of the genebank of ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics). ICRISAT conducts food productivity research on sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, chickpea, pigeon pea, and peanut, which are key subsistence crops for non-irrigated farmland in Africa and Asia. They maintain a gene bank with over 120,000 varieties of these crops from 144 countries. Many of the older varieties are no longer cultivated, and this genebank is the only source of that genetic material. The gene bank is in divided into two sections for long (-20°C) and medium-term (+4°C) preservation. Seen here is the +4°C gene bank for medium-term storage, with Sivarajyadav D. and Manish Reddy inspecting a sample of sorghum germplasm for regeneration.

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Inspecting seeds in the cold room of the genebank of ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics). ICRISAT conducts food productivity research on sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, chickpea, pigeon pea, and peanut, which are key subsistence crops for non-irrigated farmland in Africa and Asia. They maintain a gene bank with over 120,000 varieties of these crops from 144 countries. Many of the older varieties are no longer cultivated, and this genebank is the only source of that genetic material. The gene bank is in divided into two sections for long (-20°C) and medium-term (+4°C) preservation. Seen here is the +4°C gene bank for medium-term storage, with Sivarajyadav D. and Manish Reddy inspecting a sample of sorghum germplasm for regeneration.

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