Major Holdings

PGRC has an international mandate to manage world-base collections of barleys and oats, and duplicate (back-up) world-base collections of pearl millet and oilseed/green manure crucifers.

PGRC's seed collection consists of about 110,000 accessions (samples) of seeds.

Seed Distribution

Sample Distribution
Barley	38,000
Oat	28,000
Wheat	13,000
Crucifer	1,500
Clonal	3,000
Vegetable	3,000
Pearl Millet	3,500
Forage	4,000
Other	10,000

PGRC is part of a worldwide network of centres established in collaboration with the Biodiversity International. New samples are acquired from this network of gene banks, from plant breeders, or are collected from the plant's natural habitat.

PGRC coordinates Canada's multi-nodal system. The Nodes are responsible for rejuvenation and evaluation of specific crops while PGRC is the main seed repository.