European Cultivated Potato Database
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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 Bioversity International
. 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.
Potato
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...
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.
- 159,848 observations
- 29 contributors
- 91 characters
- 4,119 cultivated varieties
- 1,354 breeding lines
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
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
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 Bioversity International
Bioversity International
Bioversity International is one of 15 agricultural research centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research . It is dedicated to the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity to improve the livelihoods of poor people. The organization is highly...
. 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.