The CRF is key to the conservation of agrobiodiversity, its study and documentation. This agrobiodiversity includes traditional landraces donated by farmers, crop wild relatives, breeding materials and existing and obsolete commercial varieties, with the potential to be used both as base materials for obtaining new varieties and for the recovery and cultivation of native varieties. All this diversity is available to public and private sector researchers, breeders
and farmers.
To fulfill this legal mandate, the CRF conserves, studies and documents the seed collections maintained in its own facilities and the security seed collection of all species of the Collection Network of the Plant Genetic Resources National Program, publishes the National Inventory, that includes passport data information and characterization data of more than 75,000 accessions, and coordinates the activities of this Network. Its lines of research include activities related to the search and collection of new materials, the optimization of regeneration and multiplication protocols, the morpho-agronomic and molecular characterization of cereal and legume collections and applied aspects of physiology and seed pathology.
