What is meant by germplasm collection? What are its benefits?
Preservation of the seeds of the cultivated variety and its wild varieties helps in making a good germplasm collection. Following are the benefits of germplasm collection.
(a) This helps in preparing a large pool of desirable characters in a plant species.
(b) This helps in the proper selection of suitable traits during a hybridization programme.
(c) This helps in combining the best of cultivated and wild varieties of plants.