AGRO-BIODIVERSITY AND CROP GENETIC RESOURCES IN NORTH-WESTERN HIMALAYAS

Abstract

Western Himalaya contributed a great deal in conservation of crop genetic resources such as amaranths,
chenopods, buckwheat, maize, wheat, fingermillet, Echinochloa frumeritacea, rice, lentil, pyrus, prunus,
sorbus, Rubus, Ribes, Hordecom, Allicum, Lepidium, Carum, Cicer, Cucumis etc. Extent of variability
in some of these crop has been depicted in this paper.