About EURISCO
The European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources (EURISCO) provides information
about more than 2 million accessions of crop plants and their wild relatives, preserved ex situ
by about 400 institutes. It is based on a network of National Inventories of 43 member countries
and represents an important effort for the preservation of world's agrobiological diversity by
providing information about the large genetic diversity kept by the collaborating institutions.
Between 2003 and 2014, EURISCO was hosted and maintained by Bioversity International, Rome, Italy. Since 2014,
EURISCO is being maintained at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK),
Gatersleben, Germany.
The central goal of EURISCO is to provide a one-stop-shop for information for the scientific community
and for plant breeders. EURISCO contains both passport data and phenotypic data.
In addition to ex situ data, in the frame of the project
"Extension of EURISCO for Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) in situ data and preparation of pilot countries'
data sets", the EURISCO infrastructure has recently been extended for the management of in situ
CWR data. Some of the pilot countries involved in the project have already provided production data on in situ
CWR populations for integration into EURISCO. A search mask allowing simple filtering can be found
here. More comprehensive search functionalities
for in situ CWR data are under preparation.
EURISCO is being maintained on behalf of the Secretariat of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant
Genetic Resources (ECPGR), in collaboration with and on behalf of the National Focal Points for
the National Inventories.
How to obtain germplasm
EURISCO does not provide the possibility to order accessions directly. The requests should be
addressed to the holding institutions. The presence of data listed in EURISCO does not provide
any warranty that the respective collection holders will be able to provide any plant material
to interested parties. More information can be found
here.