Ricardo Goenaga Learn about the national cacao germplasm collection housed at the USDA ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station …
USDA TARS Cacao Collection
Category: Collection Maintenance
Cryotherapy Using Shoot Tip Cryopreservation
Jean Carlos Bettoni, Gayle Volk This chapter provides an overview of cryotherapy, a technology that uses shoot …
Grafting Cacao
Angel Marrero USDA technician Angel Marrero grows rootstocks and side grafts cacao (Theobroma cacao) to propagate specific cultivars …
Grafting Pecan
Keith Kubenka Watch USDA horticulturalist Keith Kubenka bark graft pecan (Carya illinoinensis) to propagate material within the National Collection of …
NPGS Temperate-adapted forage legume genetic resources
Brian Irish Temperate-adapted forage legumes are agriculturally important crops. This fact sheet describes some of the ways the USDA National …
NPGS Seed of Success Collaboration
Brian Irish, Bailey Hallwachs, Christina Walters, Peggy Olwell This fact sheet describes the USDA National Plant Germplasm System’s involvement in …
An Introduction to the USDA Date Palm Collection
Robert Krueger USDA horticulturalist, Robert Krueger, provides a brief overview and history of the national date palm collection in Thermal, …
Seed Storage and Seed Longevity
Christina Walters Dr. Christina Walters presents seed preservation research, focusing on exceptional species. Learn about the effects of moisture …
Spinach in 90 seconds
David Brenner, Forrest Douglass Curator David Brenner gives a quick overview of spinach, one of the crops grown at the …
Seed Germination in the National Plant Germplasm System: NCRPIS, Ames, Iowa
Lisa Pfiffner, Forrest Douglass, Jesse Perrett Learn about seed germination at the North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station in Ames, …