Table 1.

Number of worldwide significant cultivated germplasm collection of finger millet preserved in national and international gene banks.

Country	Institutes	No. of accessions	Reference
Asia
India	All India Coordinated Millet Project, UAS, Bangalore	6257	Dwivedi et al., 2012
	International Crop Research Institute for the Semiarid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru	6804	Goron and Raizada, 2015
	National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), New Delhi	9522	Dwivedi et al., 2012
Japan	Department of Genetic Resources I, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Tsukuba-shi	565	Dwivedi et al., 2012
Nepal	Central Plant Breed. and Biotechnol. Division, Nepal Agric. Res. Council (CPBBD), Khumaltar, Kathmandu	869	Dwivedi et al., 2012
Africa
	Ethiopia Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, Addis Ababa	2156	Dwivedi et al., 2012
Kenya	National Gene Bank of Kenya, Crop Plant Genetic Resources Centre, Muguga	2875	Dwivedi et al., 2012
Uganda	Serere Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute, Soroti	1231	Dwivedi et al., 2012
Zambia	SADC Plant Genet. Resour. Centre, Lusaka	1037	Dwivedi et al., 2012
America
USA	National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA	702	Dwivedi et al., 2012
	Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, USDA-ARS, Griffin, GA, USA	748	Dwivedi et al., 2012