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Luis Salazar/Crop Trust, head of Ecuador 's national department of phytogenetic resources at the country's National Institute of Agricultural Research, explains that their germplasm bank consists of approximately 28,000 accessions that are conserved in the field, in vitro, cryopreservation and cold storage.
"The bank conserves native and exotic agrobiodiversity of grains, tubers and high Andean roots, Amazonian and tropical fruit trees, forest species, medicinal plants and export crops such as cocoa, coffee, bananas, African palm, achiote, among others," he says. Tapia is from Ecuador's Pichincha province and growing up was passionate about nature and the mountains.
"I graduated from the University with a degree in Agricultural Engineering, I did my thesis on minor Andean tubers at INIAP where I continue to work until today," he says."Today we have a germplasm bank that is the largest in the country, conserving agrobiodiversity of many crops of importance for food security, for export and with very important nutritional characteristics."
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