Regeneration and Characterization of cultivated and wild cereal genetic resources at ICARDA [Standard Operating Procedure]
Seed regeneration is the process that leads to the generation of a new seed-lot for a given
accession with the intention to increase its stored seeds in the collection (also called
“multiplicationâ€) or to increase the viability of its seeds equal to or above an agreed minimum
level, which is referred to as the regeneration threshold. The latter case is often termed as “seed
rejuvenationâ€.
Characterization is the description of plant germplasm through recording the expression of