In pics: National Kiwifruit Germplasm Repository of Wuhan Botanical Garden in Hubei

A technician displays the actinidia buds at National Kiwifruit Germplasm Repository of Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 21, 2019. The National Kiwifruit Germplasm Repository have constructed a kiwifruit germplasm repository with the most diversified genetic resources and germplasms in the world. As a major germplasm repository for gathering and preserving actinidia genetic resources, it has gathered and preserved 61 actinidia species or varieties, over 110 cultivars and more than 30,000 interspecific and intraspecific hybrids. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)