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). #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.
2. Physical basis of genetic leather that covers all hereditary material of some sort. (Embrapa, Glossary)