Germplasm

1. It is the material that constitutes the physical basis of genetic inheritance, passed down from one generation to the next through reproductive cells (IBPGR, 1991). 2.Means that the material where a principle that can grow and develop further being defined as the sum of the hereditary material of a species. There are five categories of germplasm: wild relatives, local populations (landraces) or primitive varieties, cultivars that have been replaced; experimental lines, mutations and other products of breeding programs; modern cultivars. 3. Physical basis of genetic leather that covers all hereditary material of some sort. (Embrapa, Glossary)

References

Glossary of Genetic Resources. Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology. Available at: <http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/recgen/glossario/glossario.html>. Accessed: February 2011.
IBPGR. Elsevier's dictionary of plant genetic resources. Rome, 1991. 187 p.