National and International Germplasm Databases

Global climate change and the increasing human population have challenged the global food production system. Plant germplasm are highly valuable in terms of plant breeding, conservation and preservation of biodiversity in the food and agriculture industry.

This research is an overview and provides all the international databases and several important national databases and the access of these portals to the gene banks for ordering of diverse plant materials.

Plant Gene banks hold the biodiversity around the world, and databases are the way users connect with gene banks at the national and international levels. The main purpose of designing these databases is to facilitate communication in this system. Almost all of these online systems provide only initial identification of plant material (passport data) and do not include information in all conspectus of international standard data (multi-purpose passport descriptors). These portals provide opportunities to facilitate the connection of new systems, while enhancing and linking existing systems, and increasing the limited information available in current systems. These protocols will extend and transform data types into phenotypic (detection and evaluation) data, environmental and spatial information, and, if possible, genetic information as well as actual access to expected performance.

International portals are currently under development for passing through limited (state or national) search systems and providing integrated and structured solutions that are accessible and permanent and some of these genealogy banks provide free services to researchers to ensure that the unique variety is effectively and efficiently available for use by researchers.