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At a press conference held by the Shanghai Municipal Government on January 12, Lu Zhengrong, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced the protection of agricultural germplasm resources in Shanghai. He said that Shanghai has initially established an agricultural germplasm resource protection system, and established a comprehensive agricultural biological gene resource bank including long-term library, medium-term library, ultra-low temperature library and germplasm garden; built 8 livestock and poultry seed farms; built 11 aquatic seed preservation farms; and initially established fruit tree, flower and other crop germplasm resource gardens. The number of agricultural germplasm resources in Shanghai has begun to take shape, collecting and preserving 10,000 local germplasm resources such as crops, fruit trees, flowers, microorganisms, livestock and poultry, aquatic products, etc., and more than 210,000 pieces of genetic material; it also has a number of high-quality local livestock and poultry aquatic resources, of which 12 varieties such as Meishan pig, Pudong white pig, Sha wutou pig, Pudong chicken, Shenhong colorful pheasant and so on are listed in the national inventory of livestock and poultry genetic resources, Chinese river crab, long snout crab (commonly known as "Jiangtuan", "Baiji", "fat head fish", etc.), Songjiang perch (commonly known as "Songjiang four gill perch") 31 varieties included in the list of local aquatic genetic resources protection.

However, the germplasm resource bank and nursery in Shanghai are mainly established by the scientific research projects of relevant scientific research units, and there are problems such as the relatively insufficient capacity of the germplasm resource bank, the scattered and small germplasm resources, and the lack of backup fields. To this end, Shanghai will fully promote the construction of agricultural germplasm resources protection and utilization system during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period: through the establishment and improvement of the Classification and Grading Protection System of Agricultural Germplasm Resources in Shanghai, promote the identification of agricultural germplasm resource protection units and the registration of germplasm resources; coordinate the layout of the city's agricultural germplasm resource banks, nurseries and farms, and improve the hardware facilities of the municipal comprehensive preservation center and sub-center of agricultural germplasm resources, with a preservation capacity of 500,000 copies. Shanghai will also build more than 3 comprehensive crop germplasm resource gardens, more than 5 special garden gardens, 10 livestock and poultry resource preservation farms, and 2 aquatic original seed preservation farms, and promote the construction of livestock and poultry aquatic products and aquatic seed preservation backup farms.

Column Editor-in-Chief: Wu Weiqun Text Editor: Ren Chong Caption Source: Visual China Photo Editor: Su Wei

Source: Author: Ren Chong