According to the official website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in order to implement the central seed industry revitalization action plan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently issued an announcement (No. 631), clarifying the second batch of 12 national livestock and poultry genetic resources protection units, including 10 Breeding farm, 2 gene banks. Among them, the national silkworm genetic resource gene bank applied by the Institute of Sericulture of Southwest University and the Institute of Sericulture of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Jiangsu University of Science and Technology) was officially approved.
This is the first time that my country has identified a national silkworm genetic resource gene bank, which “marks that the silkworm seed resources managed by the Animal Husbandry Law of the People’s Republic of China also have a clear national protection subject for silkworm seeds.”
The National Silkworm Genetic Resources Gene Bank of Southwest University is located on the Beibei campus (Southern District) of the school. It has a dedicated building for species conservation and related supporting facilities. It relies on the only national key laboratory in this field in my country – Bombyx mori genome biology. National Key Laboratory of Sericulture, Key Laboratory of Sericulture Biology and Genetic Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (the first ministerial key laboratory of sericulture in my country), National Innovation and Intelligence Base for Silkworm Systems Biology, National Sericulture Industry Technology R&D Center, Sericulture Resources With key platforms such as the Molecular Improvement Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, it has advanced equipment, strong R&D capabilities, and a stable technical team.
The Southwest University Silkworm Gene Bank was founded in the 1930s. It has complete original records of genealogy data since 1940, and has gathered the talents of Professor Jiang Tongqing, Academician Xiang Zhonghuai, Professor Lu Cheng, and The hard work of several generations of experts and scholars represented by Professor Fang Yin has trained a group of young rising stars. At the turn of the century, the bank became the world’s largest silkworm gene bank, with outstanding achievements and well-known at home and abroad. It was recognized by international peers as a “central core institution” in this field.
The approval of the National Silkworm Genetic Resources Gene Bank is another important national platform for the school’s sericulture discipline and sericulture team, which will surely contribute to the scientific protection, fine evaluation, and germplasm of silkworm genetic resources in the future. Innovation and variety selection and application play a major role in promoting.
Jiangsu University of Science and Technology and the Sericulture Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, as the only national-level professional sericulture research institute in the country, have more than 90 years of experience in protecting silkworm germplasm resources and have now established the first place in the world to preserve silkworm seeds. It is the gene bank of silkworm germplasm resources with the largest quantity and richest types of resources.
The formal approval of the National Silkworm Genetic Resources Gene Bank is the second time that the Sericulture Research Institute of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology has won the title of “National Silkworm Germplasm Resource Preservation Center of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences” and “Jiangsu Province Sericulture Germplasm Resources”. After obtaining qualifications for the preservation of silkworm germplasm resources such as “Gene Bank” and “Jiangsu Characteristic and Advantageous Seed Center”, it has obtained another heavyweight silkworm resource preservation qualification title, which further clarifies the school’s Sericulture Research Institute as a national silkworm species protection unit. subject status and qualifications.
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