Brazil: Amazon hosts initiative to preserve pineapple genetic diversity

An Active Germplasm Bank (BAG) is being implemented at the Experimental Farm of the Federal University of Amazonas (Ufam) in Manaus, promoting the conservation of the genetic diversity of edible pineapple, which has its largest varieties in the Amazon region. With the support of Embrapa Amazônia Oeste (AM), the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural and Forestry Development of Amazonas (Idam) and farmers from different locations in Amazonas, the project has already brought together 54 accessions of edible pineapples from 32 municipalities in Amazonas. The activity is an initiative part of the project "Conservation of Local Pineapple Varieties Cultivated in Amazonas", led by agricultural engineer Henrique dos Santos Pereira, professor at Ufam. The project aims to value and conserve agrobiodiversity through the collection, characterization and conservation of germplasm from edible pineapples cultivated by indigenous populations and family farmers in the Amazon. It also has the ...