Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors – Plant Database Map

Year launched

2001

Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors homepage

Home institute(s)

: Bioversity International, FAO

Funders

: FAO

Project history

:
Jointly developed by FAO and IPGRI/Bioversity, first released in 2001 and updated in 2012 to reflect emerging needs including increased use of GPS technologies and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Domain

: Genebanking

Data type(s)

: Accession, Collection, MLS Status, Taxonomic

Documentation

: https://www.bioversityinternational.org/e-library/publications/detail/faobioversity-multi-crop-passport-descriptors-v21-mcpd-v21/

Software used

: N/A

Standards used

: Bioversity Crop Descriptor Lists, FAO-WIEWS (institution codes)

What is open?

Descriptors

System update procedures

: Updated by FAO/Bioversity specialists

Curation type

: N/A

User training options

: Guidebooks

Data system type

: Standard collection and accession descriptors to facilitate germplasm exchange.

Current users

: anyone exchanging crop germplasm

Reference organism

: Crops included in Bioversity descriptors