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Following the that ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Crop Centre has won a five year contract from Defra to continue to host the UK Vegetable Genebank at the University’s Wellesbourne Campus, discuss with and the importance of this store of genetic diversity for breeding into crop varieities of the future to solve farming problems.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Crop Centre at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has won a five year contract from Defra to continue to host the UK Vegetable Genebank at the University’s .
The is an internationally significant collection of almost 14,000 seed samples from different vegetable crops including carrot onion, lettuce cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli and closely related wild species.

The collection represents the genetic diversity in the genepool of each crop, and is a vital resource for researchers and plant breeders across the world.

“Vegetables are an important component of a healthy diet and the seed resources within the Genebank will support the development of new and improved varieties in the future”, said who leads the Vegetable Genebank project.