The European Central Lolium database is maintained by the Genetic Resources Unit at IGER. The Lolium database is available as a series of downloadable spreadsheets or is searchable on-line on the Internet server of IGER. It contains passport data on 9050 accessions of 15 Lolium taxa stored in 17 European genebanks. The collections contain accessions from 55 countries or regions, 10 of them outside Europe, and include advanced cultivars (2062), primitive cultivars (113), wild or semi-wild material (5171), breeding or research material (317), botanic garden samples (112) and material of unknown type (1275). Seed requests should be sent directly to the holding institutes.