미얀마의 농업유전자원의 보존과 약용식물

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is a country of Southeast Asia with land area that is three times larger than that of the Korea and has a rich biological resources. Agriculture is the most important industry. Thus, agricultural genetic resources have been considered as important. Myanmar Seed Bank established in 1990 preserves agricultural genetic resouces and belongs to Department of Agricultural Research(DAR) of Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation(MOAI), Myanmar. There has conserved totally 20,013 accessions which are conserved 10,108 accessions including 6,302 rice germplasm in short-term storage and 9,905 accessions including 6,250 rice germplasm in middle-term storage. Besides this, Myanmar is interested in the various medicinal plants because of malaria and subtropical diseases. Myanmar’s useful plants listed 1,528 species of 185 families and among them, medicinal plant resources are 59 species of 41 families. And MOI has conserved 517 accessions for the treatment of malaria and 712 accessions for tuberculosis, etc.