Construction begins on project to help agriculture researchers conserve nut and fruit crops for today and tomorrow
Renovation and construction of nearly 35,000 square feet of screenhouses and greenhouses began on June 15 at the Lewis Brown Research Farm in Corvallis, Ore.
The project supports the Agricultural Research Service’s National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR) – a gene bank established to collect, distribute and evaluate plant germplasm (e.g., seeds and other tissues that allow

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