The European Central Bromus Database is maintained by the Institute for Agrobotany (ABI), Tápiószele, Hungary. The Institute performs a full genebank activity on field and vegetable crops, it is the centre of the national genebank programme and represents Hungary in a number of international fora in the area of plant genetic resources conservation. The Bromus database is searchable on-line at the Internet server of the NGB - a regional genebank for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and it consists of two files. The BROMSTRU.DOC file contains the information about the structure of the main database file and gives the explanations for the field names and some coded values. The real accession data are compiled in the EUBROMUS.DBF file. It contains passport data on 583 accessions of 46 Bromus taxa stored in 10 European genebanks (218 accessions belong to the Bromus inermis). The collections contain accessions from 24 countries or regions, 4 of them outside Europe, and includes commercial varieties and breeding or research materials (52), ecotypes or semi-wild material and material of unknown type (531). Seed requests should be sent directly to the holding institutes.

Database access	Further information
On-line - search	Contributors
Off-line - download, xls format Off-line - download, dbf format	Database description
Off-line - hardcopy