Exploration and Studies of Wild Soybean Germplasm Resources in the China Genebank during Recent Decade

The present report summarized the progress on the collecting work of wild soybean genetic resources and on the general situations of studies in wild soybean resources during the recent decade(2001-2010)in China.There were 5939 wild soybean accessions collected during 1979-1982 and 600 accessions collected during 1979-1982 in the China Genebank.In recent ten years(2001-2010),a total of 1979 accessions were collected across 17 provinces,distributed in 318 counties and 930 towns.Of which 178 counties were newly-collected areas.Wild soybean accessions increased by 33.3 percent in the Chinese wild soybean collection.