Australian Pastures Genebank Distribution Policy
The Australian Pastures Genebank (APG) is Australia’s first national pasture and forage Genetic Resource Centre.
The APG conserves Australia’s pasture and forage species collections and facilitates their
sustainable use nationally and internationally. The APG supports continued gains in
agricultural productivity and environmental preservation, now and into the future.
The APG is custodian to Australia’s largest collection of pasture and forage germplasm and
serves both national and global public good. The material held by the APG has
predominately been acquired from Australian state government genebanks. It was
obtained with the understanding that the germplasm and related information would be
freely available for the purposes of scientific research, plant breeding, genetic resource
conservation and education, under the terms of the Standard Material Transfer
Agreement (SMTA http://www.planttreaty.org/content/what-smta) in accordance with
the Multilateral System (MLS http://www.planttreaty.org/content/multilateral-system) of
Access and Benefit Sharing of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food
and Agriculture (Treaty http://www.planttreaty.org/content/texts-treaty-officialversions).
Detailed distribution policy can be read from this link