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In support of global food security, the Germplasm Resources team in John Innes Centre conserves crop genetic diversity for future generations and ensures its availability for current users.

If you used our public cereal resources in a scientific publication or in any publicly available written report, please acknowledge our work and funders as following:

“We thank the John Innes Centre Germplasm Resources Unit, a National Bioscience Research Infrastructure supported by the UKRI-BBSRC, grant number BBS/E/JI/23NB0001 for conserving and supplying germplasm through www.seedstor.ac.uk “.

If you used our Pisum collection, please acknowledge our work and funders as following:

“We thank the John Innes Centre Germplasm Resources Unit, a National Bioscience Research Infrastructure supported by the UKRI-BBSRC (grant number BBS/E/JI/23NB0001) and by the UK Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs through the Provision and Maintenance of the Pea Genebank to Facilitate R&D Need (grant number C5515) for conserving and supplying germplasm through www.seedstor.ac.uk".

If you used other germplasm or data resources, please contact us for the acknowledgement information @ jic.geneticresources@jic.ac.uk,

If a GRU team member supported you in choosing the germplasm that led to your scientific findings, please consider including them as authors on your publication as appropriate for their intellectual contribution. Please contact jic.geneticresources@jic.ac.uk, for the needed information of the specific contributor.

If you used the SeedStor database please consider citing our publication SeedStor: A Germplasm Information Management System and Public Database. RSP Horler et al. Plant and Cell Physiology (2018) https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcx195