Cabaiguán Germplasm Bank: Guardian of the Genetic History of Cuban Tobacco The Cabaiguán Tobacco Experimental Station is home to the most important germplasm bank in Cuba dedicated to this crop, a unique facility in the country that preserves all primitive, local and foreign varieties of tobacco, as well as wild species of the genus Nicotiana and lines obtained from genetic improvement programs. Milady Cabrera Esmori, head of the station's research group, explained that in this bank, seeds of varieties that were once commercial but that today are no longer cultivated due to their susceptibility to current diseases are preserved. Wild species donated by other institutions and seeds of all var... [Read more]