The ECPGR Malus Database Wye College, University of London National Fruit Collections Brogdale Road, Faversham, Kent. ME138X2, United Kingdom Tel & Fax: ++(44-1795) 590272 Database manager: Ms Emma-Jane Lamont

A pilot European Malus database has been created by Wye College, as agreed at the first ECPGR meeting of a Working Group on Malus/Pyrus (15-17 May 1997). The structure of the database follows the principles of the FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors list. The database contains 21 600 records of Malus accessions held in 11 countries, namely Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, the UK, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Switzerland and Macedonia (FYR).

Database access	Further information
On-line - search	Contributors
Off-line - download (June 1998 version; 725 Kb Zip-file)	Passport descriptors
Off-line - hardcopy	Specific descriptors