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Mansfeld's Encyclopedia and Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Species
Additionally, by grouping the information in modules, duplications can be avoided and
the editing of the data can be optimised. For the same reason, international standards
will be followed as far as possible, e.g. for authors abbreviations (BRUMMITT
and POWELL 1992, IPNI), geographical data (BRUMMITT 2001), and plant uses (COOK
1995). Tools will be developed for online-editing that should provide convenient
means for updating the information.
The database development is part of the project “Federal Information System on Genetic
Resources” (BIG) (http://www.big-flora.de/), which involves four German partner
institutions, and is co-ordinated by the German Centre for Documentation and Information
in Agriculture (ZADI): (1) Central Agency for Agricultural Documentation and
Information (ZADI), (2) Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), (3) Federal Agency for Nature
Protection (BfN), and (4) Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
(IPK) (ROSCHER et al. 2002). The project is funded by the German Ministry of Research
and Technology (BMBF) and includes, in addition to the Mansfeld database,
information on plant genetic resources available in German genebanks and botanical
gardens floristic mapping of the German flora, and other PGR-related data sets.
Through a common search interface it is possible to search these heterogeneous
databases simultaneously.
References
BRUMMITT, R.K. (2001): Plant Taxonomic Database Standards No. 2. World Geographical
Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, ed. 2. TDWG, 137 pp.
BRUMMITT, R.K. and C.E. POWELL (Eds.) (1992): Authors of plant names. Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, 732 pp.
COOK, F.E.M (1995): Economic botany data collection standard. Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew, 146 pp.
HANELT, P. and INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH (Eds.)
(2001): Mansfeld’s Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops. Springer,
Berlin etc.1-6, 3716 pp.
IPNI: International Plant Names Index. [http://www.ipni.org]
MANSFELD, R. (1959): Vorläufiges Verzeichnis landwirtschaftlich oder gärtnerisch kultivierter
Pflanzenarten (mit Ausschluß von Zierpflanzen). - Kulturpflanze, Beih.
2, 659 pp.
PISTRICK, K. (2003): Mansfeld’s Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
and the Mansfeld phenomenon. In: H. KNÜPFFER and J. OCHSMANN (Eds.),
Rudolf Mansfeld and Plant Genetic Resources. Schr. Genet. Ressour. 22, 21-
31.
ROSCHER, S., S. HARRER, H.-G. FINK, H. KNÜPFFER and TH. STÜTZEL (2003): Federal
Information System Genetic Resources (BIG). In: H. KNÜPFFER and J.
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