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The John Innes Centre Germplasm Resources Unit (GRU) located in the Norwich Research Park, Norwich, England, is a Germplasm conservation unit and National Capability supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The Unit houses a number of internationally recognized reference and working collections for wheat, oats, barley and peas,〔Historic grain collections helps preserve future biodiversity http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/food-security/2011/110113-f-historic-grain-collections.aspx〕 which serves UK and non-UK based academic, industrial and non-industrial groups. ==History== The collections from the Germplasm Resources Unit were brought together in the mid-1980s from working collection from several research institutes from around the UK that worked with small grain cereals and legumes, including the extinct Plant Breeding Institute.〔History of JIC https://www.jic.ac.uk/about/history-jic/〕 This centralization effort was supported by the John Innes Institute, and was designed to act as an open collection that would provide access to important resources for ongoing research and breeding. The connection of the Unit and the John Innes Centre has the advantage of placing germplasm material on sites of active research where a higher level of interaction with the scientific community is possible. This two way interaction ensures that scientists and students are exposed to, and have greater opportunities to view and discuss genetic variability, while affording GRU staff active involvement in current research objectives and priorities within both basic and strategic applied science. In 2012 the Unit became a National Capability supported by the BBSRC as part of its new funding arrangmements. Today, the cereal collections have been successfully screened for many traits leading to the identification of new sources of disease resistance to a range of diseases as well as tolerance to drought, salinity and aluminium. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「JIC Germplasm Resources Unit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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