Description: Within the years of work on this topic, we recognized the lack of a reading which would consolidate practical and technical issues of genebanks with research achievements and project. Also, although the Maize Research Institute genebank is among the ten larges ones in the world and as such deserves to be recognized, there is not a single publication that covers its different aspects comprehensively. Finally, utilization of maize genetic resources has been accelerated in the last several years with different techniques and methods used and an overview of the current research status is required. This book is aimed primarily to the researchers, with the hope to provide them with an overview of the past, present and future aspects of maize genetic resources and hopefully initiate some new ideas on their use. (Authors)