Special-Purpose Data Sets
A number of specialized data sets are incorporated into
GRIN-Global Taxonomy, most of these arising from
publications of National Germplasm Resources Laboratory
(formerly Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory) botanists. One
example is the family and generic
data in USDA Technical Bulletin 1796, which has already been discussed. Also
included are the scientific names endorsed by
seed-testing associations such as Association of Official Seed
Analysts (AOSA) and
International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) from the
publications AOSA Rules for Testing Seeds Volume 3. Uniform classification of
weed and crop seeds (Meyer and Wiersema, 2014) and
ISTA List of Stabilized Plant Names (ed. 6, Wiersema et al., 2013),
for which the nomenclature is being verified in GRIN-Global. The AOSA data set
includes the federal noxious weeds
controlled by the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
and the state
noxious-weed seeds regulated by the Federal Seed Act. A separate
query page is currently not available to search all federal and state noxious
weeds, both aquatic and terrestrial, and state noxious-weed seeds in
GRIN-Global with links to federal and state regulatory resources. We hope to have it restored in 2019.
Another publication linked to GRIN-Global Taxonomy is the
latest revision of former USDA Agricultural Handbook 505, A checklist of
names for 3,000 vascular plants of economic importance (Terrell,
1986b). This new revision, which treats over 12,200 economically important
vascular plants, was published in 2013 by
CRC
Press as a second edition of a 1999 work under the title World Economic Plants: A Standard
Reference. Data from this publication may be
queried on the web.
Another data set incorporated into GRIN-Global relates to threatened and
endangered plants. Among these are the plants listed in Appendices I, II,
and III of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Also included are the federal list of threatened and
endangered plants maintained by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (US-FWS), Department of the Interior and the
list of rare plants maintained by the Center for Plant Conservation
(CPC).
A data set on crop wild relatives (CWR) was recently added to GRIN-Global Taxonomy in 2014. Currently, 0 CWR have been classified according
to their hybridization potential with 0 major and minor crops. A query page exists to search these data in various ways.
A final specialized data set in GRIN-Global provides information on published rhizobial
nodulation reports for genera and species. These data,
concerning mainly legumes, can be queried on the nodulation search page.