The Hindu Business Line : Saving for posterity

Seeds of various crops being stored in the genebank of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) headquarters at Pathancheru, Hyderabad. The genebank is the bedrock of Icrisat's crop improvement research. This is one of the largest public-funded genebanks in the world and it conserves 1,14,870 germplasm accessions of sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut and six small millets from 130 countries. Icrisat has so far supplied over 6,70,000 germplasm samples to scientists in 143 countries. With $1.3-million fund from the World Bank, it is upgrading the facilities at the genebank.

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