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Germplasm Resources Information Network

{{short description|US government online software project}}

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Germplasm Resources Information Network or GRIN is an online USDA National Genetic Resources Program software project to comprehensively manage the computer database for the holdings of all plant germplasm collected by the National Plant Germplasm System.{{cite book|author=National Research Council (U.S.)|author2=Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives|title=The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System|publisher=National Academies Press|year=1991|isbn=9780309043908|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V-KiTB2eaCEC&pg=PA139|page=139}}

GRIN has extended its role to manage information on the germplasm reposits of insect (invertebrate), microbial, and animal species (see sub-projects).

Description

The site is a resource for identifying taxonomic information (scientific names) as well as common names{{cite book|last=Lipscomb|first=Barney L.|last2=Pipoly|first2=John James|last3=Sanders|first3=Roger William |title=Floristics in the New Millennium: Proceedings of the Flora of the Southeast US Symposium|volume=18|publisher=BRIT Press|year=2000|isbn= 9781889878041|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GUWx4g0Sii0C&pg=PA90|page=90}} on more than 500,000 accessions (distinct varieties, cultivars etc.) of plants covering 10,000 species;{{cite book|last=Miller|first=William|last2=Pellen|first2=Rita M.|title=Evolving Internet Reference Resources|volume=1|publisher=Psychology Press |year=2006|isbn=9780789030252|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RKRmH6aIN2gC&pg=PA386 |page=386}} It gives 450,000 accessions (outdated; GRIN gives 500,000 as of June 2012).{{cite web|url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/acc/acc_queries.html|title=Accession Area Queries|work=Germplasm Resources Information Network|access-date=June 30, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527115334/http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/acc/acc_queries.html|archive-date=May 27, 2012|df=mdy-all}} It gives 500,000 accessions. both economically important ones and wild species. It profiles plants that are invasive or noxious weeds, threatened or endangered, giving out data on worldwide distribution of its habitat; as well as passport information.{{cite book|last=Ullrich|first=Steven E.|title=Barley: Production, Improvement, and Uses|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2011|isbn=9780813801230|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4nFfyy66UioC&pg=PA149| page=149}} GRIN also incorporates an Economic Plants Database.

The network is maintained by GRIN's Database Management Unit (GRIN/DBMU).{{cite web|url=http://www.ars.usda.gov/AboutUs/AboutUs.htm?modecode=12-75-15-00|date=May 11, 2009|title=About us|work=Agricultural Resource Service|access-date=June 30, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527171658/http://www.ars.usda.gov/AboutUs/AboutUs.htm?modecode=12-75-15-00|archive-date=May 27, 2012|df=mdy-all}} GRIN is under the oversight of National Germplasm Resources Laboratory (NGRL) in Beltsville, Maryland, which in 1990 replaced its forerunner, the Germplasm Services Laboratory (GSL), that had formerly run GRIN.{{cite book|author=National Research Council (U.S.).|author2=Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives|title=The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System|publisher=National Academies Press|year=1991|isbn=9780309043908|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V-KiTB2eaCEC&pg=PA96|pages=6, 96}} Since November, 2015 GRIN has been running on GRIN-Global software produced by a collaborative project between the USDA and the Global Crop Diversity Trust.{{cite web |url=https://www.grin-global.org/ |title=GRIN-Global |access-date=March 31, 2020}}

Sub-projects

A stated mission of GRIN is to support the following projects:{{cite web|url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/aboutgrin.html|title=About GRIN|work=Germplasm Resources Information Network|access-date=June 30, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509181203/http://www.ars-grin.gov/aboutgrin.html|archive-date=May 9, 2012|df=mdy-all}}

See also

References

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External links

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  • {{Official website|https://www.ars-grin.gov/}}
  • The NRCS also maintains the [http://plants.usda.gov/about_plants.html PLANT database]

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