Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees
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The Pacific Community's Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT), formerly known as the Regional Germplasm Centre (RGC), is a propagation material vault operated by the Pacific Community (SPC)'s Land Resources Division. Its purpose is to preserve resources including crops, and other plants of the Pacific region. The vault is in Fiji, and it replaced many local seed vaults of the Pacific that had trouble with maintenance.
This center is vested in using cutting edge plant cryopreservation,[1] and propagation methods.
See also
- Germplasm
- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault
- Seed saving
References
- ^ Normah, M. N.; Chin, H. F.; Reed, Barbara M. (2012). Conservation of Tropical Plant Species. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461437765.
- Vulnerability of Pacific crops addressed by CePaCT, Scoop Media, July 2012
- SPC works on crops, Fiji Times Online, July 2010, archived from the original on 2010-07-15, retrieved 2013-06-22
- Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees, SPC Land Resources Division
- Moorhead, Anne (March 2010), Agrobiodiversity challenges in the Pacific, New Agriculturalist
- Plant bank to preserve biodiversity of Pacific crops, SciDevNet