The European Cultivated Potato Database (ECPD) is an online collaborative database of potato variety descriptions. The information that it contains can be searched by variety name, or by selecting one or more required characteristics.
The data is indexed by variety, character, country of origin and contributor. There is a facility to select a variety and to find similar varieties based upon botanical characteristics.
ECPD is the result of collaboration between participants in 8 European Union countries and 5 East European Countries and is intended to be a source of information on varieties maintained by them. More than twenty three scientific organisations are actively contributing to this growing information source.
The Database is maintained and updated by the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency within the framework of the European Cooperative Programme for Crop Genetic Resources Networks (ECP/GR) which is organised by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI). The European Cultivated Potato Database has been created as part of its mandate to advance the conservation and use of genetic diversity for the well-being of present and future generations.
External links
- The European Cultivated Potato Database
- The Scottish Agricultural Science Agency
- Bioversity International (formerly IPGRI)
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