Goodman M M
Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27650.
J Hered. 1990 Jan-Feb;81(1):11-6. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110919.
The relative costs and benefits of genetic stock collections and germ plasm collections are discussed. The status of national and international collections is compared with the needs of plant breeders and geneticists. There is an international need for germ plasm systems that emphasize the use and employment of materials rather than acquisition and storage. For base collections to function, they must provide for regeneration, characterization, documentation, and evaluation of their materials. The quality of a germ plasm system should be judged on the basis of the quality of the materials available to scientists. Adequate quantities of high-quality seed that are of known provenience, spanning the range of known genetic diversity, promptly delivered, and well described constitute the minimum that should be expected. All too often such minimal requirements are not met.
讨论了基因库收集和种质收集的相对成本与效益。将国家和国际收集的现状与植物育种者和遗传学家的需求进行了比较。国际上需要强调材料使用和应用而非获取与储存的种质系统。基础收集要发挥作用，就必须对其材料进行再生、特征描述、记录和评估。种质系统的质量应根据科学家可获得材料的质量来判断。充足数量的、来源已知、涵盖已知遗传多样性范围、能及时交付且描述完善的高质量种子构成了应有的最低期望。但往往连这些最低要求都无法满足。
