Recent enactments of the Nagoya Protocol and UPOV convention precipitated international competition to secure biological resources. To address these challenges in the case of mushroom industry, collecting and preserving the genetic resources are urgently needed. Mushroom Research Division, National Institute of Horticltural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, has operated mushroom resource management facilities which consist of eight separate rooms with automatic temperature and humidity controllers for the safe preservation of mycelial cultures or voucher herbarium specimens. During the past three years the liquid-nitrogen (LN) cryogenic system for the permanent/semi-permanent preservation of the strains commercially or scientifically important are successfully installed, and the computerized resource management system using QR code are adopted. Up to now, 1,586 strains of 261 species in 79 genus of edible and medicinal mushrooms were preserved.

• Kang-Hyo Lee(Mushroom Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Jae-Gu Han(Mushroom Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Jae Han Cho(Mushroom Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Ok-Ryeol Kim(Mushroom Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Gi-Bbum Nam(Mushroom Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Min-Woo Hyun(Mushroom Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration)