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Descriptors for specific crops
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To facilitate the international exchange and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, uniformity in data description, collection and documentation is instrumental. Descriptors are an essential tool to enable information sharing for crops covered under Annex 1 of the International Treaty. The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (formerly Bioversity International) led the development of strategic key sets of characterization and evaluation descriptors for 22 crops included in Annex I of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).
Banana Musa Key access and utilization descriptors for banana genetic resources 2009
Barley Hordeum Key access and utilization descriptors for barley genetic resources 2009
Beans Phaseolus Key access and utilization descriptors for bean genetic resources 2009
Breadfruit Artocarpus Key access and utilization descriptors for breadfruit genetic resources 2009
Cassava Manihot Key access and utilization descriptors for cassava genetic resources 2009
Chickpea Cicer Key access and utilization descriptors for chickpea genetic resources 2010
Coconut Cocos Key access and utilization descriptors for coconut genetic resources 2009
Cowpea Vigna Key access and utilization descriptors for cowpea genetic resources 2010
Potato Solanum Key access and utilization descriptors for cultivated potato genetic resources 2009
Faba bean Vicia Key access and utilization descriptors for faba bean genetic resources 2009
Finger millet Eleusine Key access and utilization descriptors for finger millet genetic resources 2010
Grass pea Lathyrus Key access and utilization descriptors for Lathyrus spp. genetic resources 2009
Lentil Lens Key access and utilization descriptors for lentil genetic resources 2010
Maize Zea Key access and utilization descriptors for maize genetic resources 2009
Pearl millet Pennisetum Key access and utilization descriptors for pearl millet genetic resources 2010
Pigeonpea Cajanus Key access and utilization descriptors for pigeonpea genetic resources 2010
Rice Oryza Key access and utilization descriptors for rice genetic resources 2009
Sorghum Sorghum Key access and utilization descriptors for sorghum genetic resources 2010
Sweet potato Ipomoea Key access and utilization descriptors for sweet potato genetic resources 2010
Taro Colocasia Key access and utilization descriptors for taro genetic resources 2009
Wheat Triticum Key access and utilization descriptors for wheat genetic resources 2009
Yam Dioscorea Key access and utilization descriptors for yam genetic resources 2009