FIRST VEGETABLE GENETIC BANK

Deputy Director of Research and Community Heritage UGM Ika Dewi Ana (right) and Managing Director Ewindo Glenn Pardede (left) combined with plant breeding experts from the Netherlands and the founder of East-West Seed, Simon Groot as the operational inauguration of the Indonesian First Vegetable Genetic Bank in Yogyakarta, Thursday (23/8). Ewindo helps UGM build infrastructure and operates the first genetic bank or plasma bank of vegetable nutfah in Indonesia that has currently 202 genetic resources collections (SDG) ranging from chili, tomato, melon to sweet corn aimed at preserving the wealth of SDG and technology development as well as the discovery of new superior seeds in Indonesia. ANTARA PHOTO/ADV/aww/18.

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