332 • Technologies To Maintain Biological Diversity 



Oregon State University, 47 



Organization of American States (OAS), 122, 123, 



129, 301 

 orthodox seeds, 171, 183 



Pakistan, 71, 69 



Panama, 122 



Paraguay, 300 



Participating Agency Service Agreements (PASAs), 30 



Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (Maryland), 241 



Peace Corps, 30-31, 294, 298 



Pennsylvania State University, 243 



Peru, 47, 298 



plant collection in, 184 



species diversity in, 4, 68 

 Peruvian Conservation Foundation, 298 

 pharmacology, 4 



diversity maintenance's value to, 37, 44-45 



micro-organisms' use in, 206 

 Philippines 



deforestation in, 74 



national conservation strategy for, 300 

 Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., 237 

 plant breeders' rights (PBR) legislation, 260-262, 261 

 plant collection 



definitions relevant to offsite, 170-171 



for diversity maintenance, 7, 90-91 



of endangered wild species, 195-196 



funding, 270 



history of, 174 



importing samples for, 177-178, 196 



international, 270-273 



in vitro culture use in, 186, 192-193, 194 



objectives of, 169-171 



quarantine policies for, 175-178, 244-245, 262 



technologies for, 169, 171-173, 178-190, 194-195 

 Plant Genetics and Germplasm Institute, 233 

 Plant Introduction Office, 233 

 Plant Molecular Genetics Laboratory, 233 

 Plant Patent Act of 1930, 261 

 Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA), 261 

 policy 



bases for forming biological diversity, 55 



data collection for, formation, 20, 95-96 



MDBs' influence on developing countries, 294-295 



options available to Congress, 8-32 



quarantine, 175-178, 244-245, 262 



U.S., for diversity maintenance, 8-13, 222-224 

 politics 



effect of, on diversity maintenance systems, 102, 

 105, 107, 114 



effect of, on diversity management systems, 7, 90, 

 91-92, 127 

 potential natural vegetation (PNV), 66 

 programs, diversity maintenance 



animal, 238-242 



coordination for, 8-13, 18-19, 30-32, 89, 92-96 



funding, 229, 263 



international, 262-275 



linkages in, 278 



offsite, 232-245 



onsite, U.S., 224-232 

 protected areas 



classifying, 102-105, 111 



for coastal-marine ecosystems. 111, 115, 118-119, 

 224, 105 



criteria for selection of, 111-113 



designing, 102, 105-109 



"edge effect" on, 107 



establishing, 109-113 



genetic considerations for, 108 



models for, 107, 108-109, 114 



population dynamics in, 108-109 



restoration of, 119-121 

 Przewalski, N.M., 156 

 Public Health Service, U.S., 242 

 Public Land Law Review Commission, 12 

 Puerto Rico, 230, 118 



quarantine, of germplasm, 146-147, 152, 244-245 



RAMSAR, 255 



Rare Breeds Survival Trust (United Kingdom), 49 



recalcitrant seeds, 171, 187, 195 



Redwood National Park, 232 



Regional Plant Introduction Stations (RPISs), 233 



research, 4, 305 



biological diversity's benefit to, 43-45 



ecosystem diversity maintenance, 225, 226, 266 



ecosystem restoration, 232 



funding, 16-17 



genetic diversity, 122, 185-187, 191-194, 196 



goal-oriented, 15-16, 95 



micro-organism, 208-209, 213, 242, 206 



multidisciplinary, 129-130 



plant germplasm, 187, 192-195, 196 



in population genetics, 159 



problems impeding, 15-16, 95-96 



on protected area design, 106-107 



resource management, 118 



socioeconomic, 127 

 Research and Marketing Act of 1946, 10 

 Research Natural Area Program, 224-225 

 Research Natural Areas (RNAs), 19 



diversity maintenance coordination by, 226 



size of, 224 

 Resource Management Plan, 114 

 Resource Services Support Agreements (RSSA), 30 

 Rhode Island, 230 



Rhododendron Species Foundation, 237 

 Rio de Janeiro Primate Center, 301 

 Rockefeller Foundation, 270 

 Royal Botanic Gardens (U.K.), 180, 273, 174 



data collection by, 190 



in vitro storage by, 187 



St. Helena (island), 94 

 St. John (Virgin Islands), 118 

 Salonga National Park (Zaire), 117 

 San Lorenzo Canyon (Mexico), 118 



