by Administrator | Mar 22, 2020 | news
Sudan has deposited in the last week of February 2020 a third batch of seed samples representing 301 accessions of local genetic resources of known cultivated crops in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway as a back-up measure for safety duplication of indigenous...
by Administrator | Jul 22, 2019 | news
A meeting was convened between researchers from the Agricultural Plant Genetic Resources Conservation and Research Centre (APGRC) and the Biotechnology and Biosafety Research Centre on 17 July at APGRC in wad Medani. The meeting was the second between the parties for...
by Administrator | Apr 19, 2019 | news
The Agricultural Plant Genetic Resources Conservation and Research Centre (APGRC) of the ARC – Sudan has started uploading passport data of germplasm accessions held by the centre on the global database “Genesys”, which is an online platform where...
by Administrator | Mar 13, 2019 | news
A visit on 26 Feb. 2019 to the Banana Field Genebank in Kassala Research Station has revealed that banana clones of 357 accessions are well-maintained. However, management of intensive weeds continues to be a major challenge in this field. Those accessions represent...
by Administrator | Mar 13, 2019 | news
A total of more than 50 tomato accessions have been grown in Wad Medani during the current season (2018-2019) for seed multiplication and morpho-agronomic characterization. They are part of the tomato germplasm collected from different regions of Sudan. Quite...