Storage, utilization and conservation of forage germplasm in China

Forage play an important role in grassland livestock industry, ecological environment, sustainable development of agriculture as a primary agricultural natural resource. This paper summarized the survey, collection, storage, research and utilization of forage germplasm resource; its current status, existing problems and suggestions about subsequent progress were discussed, including superior and rare germplasm collection, forage genetic diversity research, biotechnology utilization in forage germplasm innovation, duration of germplasm storage, natural evolution speed, storage techniques of shortlife seeds, super gene exploration and function, biological base of species and population conservation.