PGRDEU is the central documentation of ex-situ collections of plant genetic resources in Germany. It contains data of the genebanks of the Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research - IPK (sites in Gatersleben, Groß Lüsewitz and Molchow) and the Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants - BAZ ( sites in Dresden-Pillnitz and Siebeldingen) as well as other specialised collections for plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. ... [Information of the supplier]
The second edition of the "Mansfeld-Verzeichnis , which is a standard source of information on cultivated plants, deals with c. 4.800 species (without ornamental and forestry plants). Now the third, enlarged edition of the book [HANELT, P. (Ed.), in prep.] is nearly finished. It will be published in English and will contain about 6.000 species of cultivated plants as well as many infraspecific taxa. Parallel to the book edition a database version available in the Internet is being developed. For this purpose the electronic text files of the submitted manuscripts are structured and converted into tables, so that they can be imported into a database. These tasks are part of the BIG project (BundesInformationssystem Genetische Ressourcen), which is funded by the BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology). ... [Information of the supplier]
You would like to know where gene technology has possibly been used on plants and foodstuffs? You will find more information in the TransGen database where there are entries for plants, foodstuffs, ingredients, additives, and enzymes. You can access information about the current status of gene technology for almost all crop plants. You can find worldwide statistics concerning releases of GMO into the environment, and approvals. You can make a picture for yourself, to show the production and processing status of genetically manipulated organisms. At present, the database search is made with a search port in the right-hand sidebar of the project website. ... [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
With support of the The German Centre for Documentation and Information in Agriculture (ZADI) the BVL offers a free-of-charge internet data base. There are two search forms: The "Standard search" contains all criteria in one form. The "Stepwise search" will prompt the criteria in a defined sequence. The latter is especially recommended in case of slow internet access. The online data base is available in German language only. (...) Plant protection products may be authorised for certain crop species, or a list of several crop species, or for crop groups (sometimes with exceptions). Crop species and groups form a hierarchical structure. When searching in the online database these hierarchical relationships are automatically considered. Thus the search for „wheat“ will find also products authorised for „cereals“ as well as products authorised for „winter wheat“ or „summer wheat“. Note: It is strongly recommended if searching for crops then also to select a field of use (and maybe a function). (...) The result of the search is at first a list of products which fulfil the selected criteria. A click on a trade name opens a data sheet containing general information on the product, whereas a click on an authorisation number leads to a list of the uses of that product. ... [Information of the supplier]
World Economic Plants in GRIN is based on "World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference" (John H. Wiersema and Blanca León 1999). This publication provides essential reference data in a concise and readily accessible format for over 9,500 vascular plants of commercial importance in various parts of the world. It makes available to both scientists and nonscientists up-to-date scientific names for economically important vascular plants. It includes information garnered during more than two decades of nomenclatural research on economic plants by taxonomists of the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS). ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
