Study and approbation of ex situ conservation methods for preservation of the biodiversity of wild relatives of cultivated plants of Kazakhstan

Abstract

Researchers of the laboratory of seed growing and plant protection of RSE “Institute of Botany and Phytointroduction” CS MOS RK are in the process of studying the techniques of the leading seed banks of the world, of their assessment and approbation using seed samples of wild relatives of the cultivated plants of Kazakhstan at their placing for storage. At the Institute of Botany and Phytointroduction of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan within the scientific-technical program “Botanical variety of wild relatives of cultivated plants of Kazakhstan as a source of enrichment and preservation of the agrobiodiversity gene pool for realization of the Food programme” for 2013-2015 the work on creation of seed bank of wild relatives of cultivated plants (WRCP) of Kazakhstan is being carried out. Since 2013 the employees of the Institute carry out collecting seed material of WRCP. In the present work the results of positive germinating test and planting the seeds of caper grassy (Capparis herbacea Willd.) collected in Kazakhstan are presented.