Documentation and Information Working Group - Documents and publications of interest

• Central Crop Databases: status at the beginning of ECPGR Phase IX (986,3 KB)(results of a survey conducted among Database Managers - April 2014) - 151 pages
   

• van Hintum, T., Iriondo, J. 2022. Principles for the Inclusion of CWR Data in EURISCO. European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR), Rome, Italy.
   
• EURISCO and ECPGR. 2022. Descriptors for uploading in situ CWR passport data to EURISCO
   
• Descriptors for uploading passport data to EURISCO (Updated MCPD2 EURISCO descriptors) (2017) (364,0 KB)
   
• Uploading characterization and evaluation data to EURISCO - Approved by the ECPGR Steering Committee, August 2017 (Additional upload procedure for C&E data) (251,6 KB)
   
• Data exchange standard for uploading characterisation and evaluation data from National Inventories to EURISCO (August 2015) (438,1 KB)
   
• EURISCO DOI service (357,6 KB)

• Weise S, Kreide S, Oppermann M, Knüpffer H. 2017.  EURISCO - A central information system for European germplasm holdings (285,0 KB). Poster presented at the EUCARPIA Genetic Resources 2017 Conference “Crop diversification in a changing world – Mobilizing the green gold of plant genetic resources”, 8-11 May 2017, Montpellier, France.

• Goritschnig, S., Weise, S., Guzzon, F., Maggioni, L., van Hintum, T., Steffensen, L.L., Stein, N. and Giuliano, G. (2025) 'Strengthening European research cooperation on plant genetic resources conservation and use', Genetic Resources, S2, pp. 119–134. https://doi.org/10.46265/genresj.luzj7324

• van Hintum, T., Bartha, B., Niggli, C., Avagyan, A., Vogl, S., Achathaler, L. et al. (2025) 'A proposal for genebank metrics to enhance collection management', Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization and Utilization, first view. https://doi.org/10.1017/s147926212510021x

• Weise, S., Annamaa, K. and Maggioni, L. (comps.) (2025) Report of a Working Group on Documentation and Information. Ad hoc Workshop, 18–19 September 2024, Tallinn, Estonia. Rome: European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources, 27 pp.

• Kumar, S., Guzzon, F., Goritschnig, S. and Weise, S. (2024) 'The EURISCO–EVA Information System, an innovative approach to the data management of multisite crop evaluation data', Genetic Resources, 5(10), pp. 117–125. https://doi.org/10.46265/genresj.ihxu5248
• Pragna Kotni, Theo van Hintum, Lorenzo Maggioni, Markus Oppermann, Stephan Weise, EURISCO update 2023: the European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources, a pillar for documentation of genebank material, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 51, Issue D1, 6 January 2023, Pages D1465–D1469, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac852
   
• Weise S, Oppermann M, Maggioni L, Hintum Th van. 2017. EURISCO: The European search catalogue for plant genetic resources. Nucleic Acids Research 45 (D1):D1003-D1008 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkw755
   
• Hintum Th van, Begemann F, Maggioni L. 2010. The European ex situ PGR Information landscape (644,0 KB) In: Information and communication Technologies for Biodiversity Conservation and Agriculture. Maurer L, Tochtermann K (eds). Shaker Verlag, - Aachen. pp 155 - 171.
   
• Hintum Th van, Knüpffer H. 2010. Current taxonomic composition of European genebank material documented in EURISCO.  Plant Genetic Resources Characterization and Utilization 8(2):182-188. doi:10.1017/S1479262110000158

The complete collection of IPGRI/Bioversity descriptors can be found here

The complete collection of IPGRI/Bioversity Technical Guidelines/Bulletins can be found here

Selected Descriptors

• Descriptors for Crop Wild Relatives conserved in situ (CWRI v.1) (FAO, 2021)
   
• Core descriptors for in situ conservation of crop wild relatives v.1 (Bioversity International, 2013)
   
• Developing crop descriptor lists: Guidelines for developers (Bioversity Technical Bulletin 13, 2007)
   
• FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors V.2.1 [MCPD V.2.1] (December 2015)
   
• Descriptores de pasaporte para cultivos múltiples FAO/BIOVERSITY V.2.1 [MCPD V.2.1] (Diciembre 2015)
   
• Descripteurs de passeport multi-cultures FAO/Bioversity (V.2.1) (Décembre 2015)
   
• FAO/Bioversity International Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors V.2 [MCPD V.2] (June 2012)
   
• FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors (December 2001)
   
• ISO 3166-1 Code List
   
• Key access and utilization descriptors for crop genetic resources
   
• Descriptor lists and derived standards
   
• Descriptors for Traditional Knowledge

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