Developing country demand for crop germplasm conserved by the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System

Table 5 Purpose of requests by development status of respondents’ country, 1995–1999

	Breeding or pre-breeding	Evaluation for specific traits	Basic research	Add to collection
U.S	12%	68%	12%	8%
Non-U.S. developed	17%	32%	35%	16%
Developing	15%	45%	15%	25%
Transitional^a	14%	39%	26%	22%
All countries	13%	62%	14%	11%

Source: Rubenstein et al. (2006)
^aThe term “transitional countries” was used in the 2000 Census to refer to the former countries of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Generally, results for transitional countries and developing countries did not differ greatly; we note cases when that was not the case. See Additional file 1 for more information on countries formerly designated as having transitional economies

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