Abstract:

Crop germplasm resources are the basic materials for modern crop breeding and the material basis for developing the agricultural seed industry, playing a significant role in ensuring China's grain food and sideline food security. This study aims to promote effective strategies to conserve the diversity of local germplasm resources of food crops in Fujian Province in the context of the transformation in modern crop breeding technology and changes in the socioeconomic system. Through in-depth field research in Pucheng County, Nanping City, Pingnan County, and Ningde City, combined with key interviews and questionnaire surveys with key interest groups, we systematically analyzed the preservation status and utilization of local varieties of cereals, yams, and pulses, as well as their germplasm resources. In view of the serious problem of loss of local germplasm resources of the grain and starch crop varieties under the dominance of high-yielding hybrid crop combinations, this study combines the opinions of breeding experts and other stakeholders, and further puts forward countermeasures and recommendations to promote the effective preservation and rational utilization of local varieties of grain crops and their germplasm resources in Fujian Province.

Key words: Fujian Province, local varieties of food crops, crop germplasms, Pucheng County, Pingnan County