Banca de Resurse Genetice Vegetale, Suceava

Among the multiple components of the biodiversity, the plant genetic resources (P.G.R.) are, perhaps, the most important, here being included all the life forms in the vegetal field : the wild plants, the old cultivars, the landraces and the local populations, the weeds, the breed forms a.s.o. Unfortunately, simply from ignorance or from lack of storage conditions, many of these plants are threatened with extinction. This has happened at a moment when, due to the demographic explosion, its necessity is more actual than any time. As it was subjected for a long time to the natural factors of evolution, the local genetic material, containing in its hereditary structure very valuable genes, especially for adaptability, has a great importance in the breeding process.