BAMBOO GERMPLASM-DIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION IN NORTH-EAST INDIA

Abstract

Results ofsurvey, collection and live-amseroation ofbamboogennplasm
between 1984-90 at ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, AP
Centre, Basar under the All India Coordinated Research Project on
Under-Utilized and Under-Exploited plants are discussed. North-East
India is the home ofdiversity ofbamboogermplasm and accounts for half
of the total species variability in the country. Sixty three species were
reported to occur in this region. Thirty species have established well in the
live~llections out of8 genera viz. Bambusa (12 species), Dendrocalamus
(6 species), Cephalostachyum (3 species) Arondinaria (2 species),
Phyllostachys (2 species), Pseudostachyum (1 species) and
Teinostachum (1 species). Their prevalence, local name(s), habitat