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Appendix C Germplasm Collections and Commercial Seed Suppliers The following list of amaranth seed sources is based on Grubben and van Sloten, 1981, and Toll and van Sloten, 1982. See Selected Readings. Benin Centre de Formation Horticole et Nutritionnelle, B.P. 13, Ouando, Port-Novo (com- mercial seed; both amaranth and celosia cultivars) Bolivia Estacion Experimental de Patacamaya, Instituto Boliviano de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (IBTA), Patacamaya (N. Lizarraga, Amaranthus caudatus, 430 landraces from the Andean region) France Institut National de Recherches Agronomiques, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe (working collection of local cultivars) German Democratic Republic Zentralinstitut fur Genetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Corrensstrasse 3, 4325 Gater- sleben (H. Bohme, Chr. Lehmann, 100 samples of 17 wild, weedy, and cultivated species) Ghana Department of Horticulture, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (working collection) Hong Kong Wong Yukhop Seed Co., 20 Pei Ho Street, Shumshuipo, Kowloon (two commercial cultivars) India Pocha's Seeds, P.O. Box 55, Poona 411001, Maharashtra (3 commercial cultivars) Division of Vegetable Crops and Floriculture, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi 110012 (working collection) 65
66 AMARANTH National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Indian Agricultural Research Institute, IARI Campus, New Delhi 110012 (K. L. Mehra; Amaranthus species, 824 mostly landraces from India) Division of Vegetable Crops, Institute of Horticultural Research, 225 Upper Palace Orchards, Bangalore (working collection) Kerala Agricultural University, College of Horticulture, P.O. Vellanikkara 680651, Trichur Kerala (working collection) Faculty of Horticulture, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003 (C. P. Muthukrishnan; 450 landraces mainly from India) National Botanical Gardens, Lucknow, 226001, UP (working collection) National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Regional Station, Phagli, Simla 171012 (B. D. Joshi; more than 1,000 samples of landraces from India and 27 introductions) Suttons Seeds, P.O. Box 9010, Calcutta-16 (4 commercial cultivars) Indonesia National Biological Institute, P.O. Box 110, Bogor (S. Sastrapradja; 75 landraces from Indonesia) Japan T. Sakata, CPO Box Yokohama 11, Yokohama 220-91 (1 commercial cultivar) Netherlands Department of Tropical Crops, Agricultural University, Ritzema Bosweg 32, Wageningen (working collection) Nigeria International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Oyo Road, P.M.B. 5320, Ibadan (working collection) Plant Science Department, University of Ife, Ile-Ife (working collection) National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), Idi-Ishin, P.M.B. 5432 Ibadan (T. Badra, A. A. O. Edema, L. Denton; 240 population samples of landraces and breeders' lines from Nigeria) Peru Estacion Experimental de Camacani, Universidad Nacional Tecnica del Altiplano, Puno (L. Lescano, L. Perez; 440 landraces from the Andean region) Centro de Investigacion de Cultivos Andinos, Universidad Nacional del Cuzco, Avenida de la Infancia 440, Huanchac, Cuzco (L. Sumar Kalinowski; 100 accessions cereals) Taiwan Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC), P.O. Box 42, Shanhua, Tainan 741 (L. Ho; 92 samples of wild forms, landraces, and commercial cultivars from Africa, Asia, and the United States) Hsing Nong Seed Co., 188 Sec. 4 Chung Hsin Road, P.O. Box San Chung No. 2, San Chung, Taipei (several commercial cultivars) Known-You Seed Co., 26 Chung Cheng 2nd Road, Ka Ohsiung, Taiwan (popular cultivars for Taiwan) Taipei District Agricultural Improvement Station, Chin Chun, Taipei (working collection) Taiwan Seed Service, Shin-Shien, Taichung (several commercial cultivars)
APPENDIX C 67 Thailand Chia Tai Seeds and Agricultural Company, Ltd., 295-303 Songsawad Road, Bangkok (2 commercial cultivars) Fang Horticultural Experiment Station, Department of Agriculture, Fang, Chiang Mai (T. Thonguthaisri; 115 landraces from Thailand) United Kingdom Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, Haywards Heath, Sussex RH17 6TN (S. Linington; samples of wild origin) United States Burpee Seed Company, Warminster, Pennsylvania (1 commercial cultivar; tampala) G. Seed Co., P.O. Box 702, Tonasket, Washington 98855 Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland 20705 (gene bank, plant introduction for long-term storage) Grace's Gardens, 22 Autumn Lane, Hackettstown, New Jersey 07840 Gurney Seed and Nursery Co., Yankton, South Dakota 57079 Johnny's Selected Seeds, Albion, Maine 04910 Mellinger's Inc., 2310 W. So. Range Road, North Lima, Ohio 44452 National Seed Storage Laboratory (NSSL), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 (L. N. Bass; duplicates of Rodale collection) Park Seed Company, P.O. Box 31, Greenwood, South Carolina 29647, (1 commercial cultivar; Tampala) Plants of the Southwest, 1570 Pachero St., Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 Redwood City Seed Co., P.O. Box 361, Redwood City, California 94064 Rodale Research Center, R.D. 1, Box 323, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530 (C. S. Kauffman; more than 600 accessions cereals, vegetable, and wild species) Thompson and Morgan, P.O. Box 100, Farmingdale, New York 07727 (1 commercial cultivar; Hinn Choy) Tsang and Ma International, P.O. Box 294, Belmont, California 94002 (1 commercial cultivar) Zambia Crop Science Department, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Zambia, P.O. Box 2379, Lusaka (collection of 100 local cultivars plus landraces from India, Nigeria, and the United States)
