Germplasm databases

ECPGR European Central Crop Databases (ECCDBs)
A number of European central crop databases have been established through the initiative of individual institutes and of ECPGR Working Groups. The information on these accessions is centralized into one database. The databases hold passport data and, to varying degrees, characterization and primary evaluation data of the major collections of the respective crops in Europe. The germplasm accessions are maintained in different European institutes for long-term conservation according to international standards. Safety-duplicates are stored in other genebanks, preferably within another country. To request material included in the databases, please refer to the donor institutes which maintain the germplasm accessions.

Other Germplasm Databases
Bioversity International offers Web access to specific crop and multi-crop databases.

EURISCO catalogue
The EURISCO Web catalogue automatically receives data from the National Inventories (NI). It effectively provides access to all ex situ PGR information in Europe and thus facilitates locating and accessing PGR.
EURISCO is hosted at and maintained by Bioversity International on behalf of the Secretariat of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR).

Consult the:

ECPGR Crop Database Managers

Descriptor lists

FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors (MCPD), available in:
English
French
Spanish

EURISCO descriptors