Mission

The Plant Exchange Office supports the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) mission to collect, document, distribute, evaluate, enhance, and preserve the genetic diversity of economic plants important to U.S. and world agriculture. This is accomplished through developing methods to prioritize U.S. germplasm needs, procuring plant germplasm through international and domestic exchanges, arranging for and participating in international and domestic plant explorations, and developing in situ maintenance programs for crop plants and their wild relatives. In addition, the PEO documents and assigns unique identifiers to incoming plant material and responds to foreign requests for germplasm maintained in the U.S. 

Plant Inventories

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