There is an error in the fifth sentence of the Abstract. It should read: A total of 2,802,770 accessions are being conserved world-wide by 446 organizations represented in Genesys.
There are errors in Table 1. Please see the corrected Table 1 here.
Table 1. Germplasm of Indian-origin conserved in CGIAR genebanks.
The table lists the number of accessions of Indian-origin, conserved in the 11 CG genebanks. The genebanks are listed by ‘No. of accessions of Indian origin’ in descending order.
| S. No. | CGIAR Genebank | Total no. of accessions | Accessions of Indian origin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | |||
| 1 | International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India | 119,524 | 37,470 | 31.35 |
| 2 | International Rice Research Institute, The Philippines | 131,862 | 17,824 | 13.62 |
| 3 | International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Syria | 147,118 | 3,747 | 2.55 |
| 4 | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria | 27,232 | 2,276 | 8.36 |
| 5 | International Livestock Research Institute, Ethiopia | 20,229 | 501 | 2.48 |
| 6 | Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia | 64,721 | 422 | 0.65 |
| 7 | Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo, Mexico | 164,320 | 318 | 0.19 |
| 8 | West African Rice Development Association, Ivory Coast | 26,098 | 299 | 1.15 |
| 9 | Musa International Transit Centre, Bioversity International, Belgium | 1,529 | 54 | 3.53 |
| 10 | Centro Internacional de la Papa, Peru | 16,061 | 9 | 0.06 |
| 11 | Information and Communication Division, International Center for Research in Agroforestry, Kenya | 2,005 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 720,699 | 62,920 | 8.73 | |
Reference
- 1. Jacob SR, Tyagi V, Agrawal A, Chakrabarty SK, Tyagi RK (2015) Indian Plant Germplasm on the Global Platter: An Analysis. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126634 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126634 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
