The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), National Institute of Genetics and Kyoto University have developed a system (PGR-Gateway) that enables cross-searching of rice and wheat genetic resources among the genetic resources of plants preserved at NARO Genebank and the National Bioresource Project (NBRP) and it was published on January 2019. By this system the access to genetic resource information has become more efficient. Read more
The Director of the Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) Dr. Ouk Makara and Deputy-director Ms. Sakhan Sophany visited NARO's Genetic Resources Center (NGRC) and Institute of Fruit Trees and Tea Science (NIFTS), and the Kyoto Prefectural Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Technology Centre from April 15 to April 19, 2016. They also made a courtesy call to NARO President, Dr. Tokio Imbe on April 16, 2016 at the NARO Headquarters. The visit was part of the Plant Genetics Resources in Asia (PGRAsia) project (http://sumire.gene.affrc.go.jp/pgrasia/) in which CARDI is one of the participating organization.