1. Institute code
(INSTCODE)
Code of the institute where the accession is
maintained. The codes consist of the 3-letter ISO 3166 country code of the
country where the institute is located plus a number. The current set of
Institute Codes is available from the FAO website
http://apps3.fao.org/wiews/
2. Accession number
(ACCENUMB)
This number serves as a unique identifier for accessions
within a genebank collection, and is assigned when a sample is entered into the
genebank collection.
3. Collecting number
(COLLNUMB)
Original number assigned by the collector(s) of the sample,
normally composed of the name or initials of the collector(s) followed by a
number. This number is essential for identifying duplicates held in different
collections.
4. Collecting institute
code (COLLCODE)
Code of the Institute collecting the sample. If the holding institute has
collected the material, the collecting institute code (COLLCODE) should be the
same as the holding institute code (INSTCODE). Follows INSTCODE
standard.
5. Genus (GENUS)
Genus name for taxon, in latin. Initial uppercase letter required.
6. Species
(SPECIES)
Specific epithet portion of the scientific name, in latin, in lowercase
letters. Following abbreviation is allowed: 'sp.'
7. Species authority
(SPAUTHOR)
The authority for the species name.
8. Subtaxa
(SUBTAXA)
Subtaxa can be used to store any additional taxonomic identifier, in latin.
Following abbreviations are allowed: 'subsp.' (for subspecies); 'convar.' (for
convariety); 'var.' (for variety); 'f.' (for form).
9. Subtaxa authority
(SUBTAUTHOR)
The subtaxa authority at the most detailed taxonomic level.
10. Common crop name
(CROPNAME)
Name of the crop in colloquial language, preferably English (e.g. 'malting
barley', 'cauliflower')
11. Accession name
(ACCENAME)
Either a registered or other formal designation given to the accession. First
letter uppercase. Multiple names separated with semicolon without space. (e.g.:
Rheinische Vorgebirgstrauben;Emma;Avlon)
12. Acquisition date
(ACQDATE)
Date on which the accession entered the collection where YYYY is the year, MM
is the month and DD is the day. Missing data (MM or DD) should be indicated
with hyphens. Leading zeros are required. (e.g.: 1968----;20020620)
13. Country of origin
(ORIGCTY)
Code of the country in which the sample was originally collected. Use the
3-letter ISO 3166-1 extended country codes.
14. Location of collecting
site (COLLSITE)
Location information below the country level that describes where the accession
was collected. This might include the distance in kilometres and direction from
the nearest town, village or map grid reference point, (e.g. 7 km south of
Curitiba in the state of Parana).
15. Latitude of collecting
site (LATITUDE)
Degree (2 digits) minutes (2 digits), and seconds (2 digits) followed by N
(North) or S (South) (e.g. 103020S). Every missing digit (minutes or seconds)
should be indicated with a hyphen. Leading zeros are required (e.g. 10----S;
011530N; 4531--S).
16. Longitude of collecting
site (LONGITUDE)
Degree (3 digits), minutes (2 digits), and seconds (2 digits) followed by E
(East) or W (West) (e.g. 0762510W). Every missing digit (minutes or seconds)
should be indicated with a hyphen. Leading zeros are required (e.g.
076----W).
17. Elevation of collecting
site (ELEVATION)
Elevation of collecting site expressed in metres above sea level. Negative
values are allowed.
18. Collecting date of
sample (COLLDATE)
Collecting date of the sample as YYYYMMDD. Missing data (MM or DD) should be
indicated with hyphens. Leading zeros are required.
19. Breeding institute code
(BREDCODE)
FAO Institute code of the institute that has bred the material.
20. Biological status of
accession (SAMPSTAT)
The coding scheme proposed can be used at 3 different levels of detail: either
by using the general codes (in boldface) such as 100, 200, 300, 400 or by using
the more specific codes such as 110, 120 etc.
100) Wild
- 110) Natural
- 120) Semi-natural/wild
200) Weedy
300) Traditional cultivar/landrace
400) Breeding/research material
- 410) Breeder's line
- 411) Synthetic population
- 412) Hybrid
- 413) Founder stock/base population
- 414) Inbred line (parent of hybrid cultivar)
- 415) Segregation population
500) Advanced/improved cultivar
999) Other (Elaborate in REMARKS field)
21. Ancestral data
(ANCEST)
Information about either pedigree or other description of ancestral information
(i.e. parent variety in case of mutant or selection). For example a pedigree
'Hanna/7*Atlas//Turk/8*Atlas' or a description 'mutation found in Hanna',
'selection from Irene' or 'cross involving amongst others Hanna and
Irene'.
22. Collecting/acquisition
source (COLLSRC)
The coding scheme proposed can be used at 2 different levels of detail: either
by using the general codes (in boldface) such as 10, 20, 30, 40 or by using the
more specific codes such as 11, 12 etc.
10) Wild habitat
- 11) Forest/woodland
- 12) Shrubland
- 13) Grassland
- 15) Aquatic habitat
20) Farm or cultivated
habitat
- 21) Field
- 22) Orchard
- 23) Backyard, kitchen or home garden (urban,
peri-urban or rural)
- 24) Fallow land
- 25) Pasture
- 26) Farm store
- 27) Threshing floor
- 28) Park
30) Market or shop
40) Institute, Experimental station, Research organization, Genebank
50) Seed company
60) Weedy, disturbed or ruderal habitat
- 61) Roadside
- 62) Field margin
99) Other (Elaborate in
REMARKS field)
23. Donor institute code
(DONORCODE)
FAO Institute Code for the donor institute.
24. Donor accession number
(DONORNUMB)
Number assigned to an accession by the donor.
25. Other identification
(numbers) associated with the accession (OTHERNUMB)
Any other identification (numbers) known to exist in other collections for this
accession. Use the following system: INSTCODE:ACCENUMB;INSTCODE:ACCENUMB;...
INSTCODE and ACCENUMB follow the standard described above and are separated by
a colon. Pairs of INSTCODE and ACCENUMB are separated by a semicolon without
space. When the institute is not known, the number should be preceded by a
colon.
26. Location of safety
duplicates (DUPLSITE)
FAO Institute Code of the institute where a safety duplicate of the accession
is maintained. The code consist of the 3-letter ISO 3166 country code of the
country where the institute is located plus a number.
27. Type of germplasm
storage (STORAGE)
If germplasm is maintained under different types of storage, multiple choices
are allowed, separated by a semicolon (e.g. 20;30). (Refer to FAO/IPGRI
Genebank Standards 1994 for details on storage type.)
- 10) Seed collection
- 11) Short term
- 12) Medium term
- 13) Long term
- 20) Field collection
- 30) In vitro collection (Slow growth)
- 40) Cryopreserved collection
- 99) Other (elaborate in REMARKS field)
28. Remarks
(REMARKS)
The remarks field is used to add notes or to elaborate on descriptors with
value 99 or 999 (=Other). Prefix remarks with the field name they refer to and
a colon . Separate remarks referring to different fields are separated by
semicolons without space. (e.g. COLLSRC:roadside)
29. Decoded collecting
institute (COLLDESCR)
Brief name and location of the collecting institute. Only to be used if
COLLCODE can not be used since the FAO Institution Code for this institute is
not (yet) available. (e.g. Tuinartikelen Jan van Zomeren, Arnhem, The
Netherlands)
30. Decoded breeding
institute(BREDDESCR)
Brief name and location of the breeding institute. Only to be used if BREDCODE
can not be used since the FAO Institution Code for this institute is not (yet)
available. (e.g. CFFR rom Chile)
31. Decoded donor institute
(DONORDESCR)
Brief name and location of the donor institute. Only to be used if DONORCODE
can not be used since the FAO Institution Code for this institute is not (yet)
available. (e.g. Nelly Goodward, Groningen; The Netherlands)
32. Decoded safety
duplication location (DUPLDESCR)
Brief name and location of the institute maintaining the safety duplicate. Only
to be used if DUPLSITE can not be used since the FAO Institution Code for this
institute is not (yet) available. (e.g. Pakhoed Freezers Inc., Paramaribo,
Surinam)
33. Accession URL
(ACCEURL)
URL linking to additional data about the accession either in the holding
genebank or from another source. (e.g.
www.cgn.wageningen-ur.nl/pgr/collections/passdata.asp?accenumb=CGN04848)
Characterization Descriptors list for Vigna
(V. mungo and V. radiata)
Accession
number
(ACCENUMB)
Year of
characterization
(YEAR)
PLANT
DATA
Hypocotyl colour
(at 10 days after emergence)
(HYPOCOLOR)
1 Green
2 Green-purple
3 Purple
4 Dark purple
5 Mixed
6 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor, 11)
Growth
habit
(when first pod changes
colour)
(HABIT)
1 Erect
(straight and prominent main stem with few branches ascend)
2 Semi-erect (main stem less prominent; branches do not touch ground)
3 Spreading (branches touch ground)
Primary
leaf shape
(PRIMLEAFSHAPE)
1 Ovate-lanceolate
2 Lanceolate 3 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor)
Terminal
leaflet shape
(TERMLEAFSHAPE)
1 Deltate
2 Ovate
3 Ovate-lanceolate
4 Lanceolate
5 Rhombic
6 Obovate
7 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor)
1 Deltate
2 Ovate 3 Ovate-lanceolate 4 Lanceolate 5
Rhombic 6 Obovate

Leaf
pubescence
(LEAFPUB)
0 Glabrous
1 Very sparsely pubescent
3 Puberulent (sparsely pubescent)
5 Moderately pubescent
7 Densely pubescent
Petiole
colour
(PETCOLOR)
1 Green
2 Green with purple spots
3 Greenish purple
4 Purple
5 Dark purple 6 Other
(specify in the NOTES descriptor)
Stem colour
(STEMCOLOR)
1 Light
green
2 Dark green
3 Light purple
4 Dark purple
5 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor)
INFLORESCENCE AND FRUIT
Pod
attachment to peduncle
(when pods
are full grown)
(PODERECT)
3 Pendant
5 Sub-erect
7 Erect
Immature
pod colour
(PODCOLORIMM)
1 Light
green
2 Dark green
3 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor)
Mature pod
colour
(PODCOLORMAT)
1 Straw
2 Tan
3 Brown
4 Brown and black
5 Black
6 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor)
SEED
Number
of seeds per pod
(SEEDPOD)
Mean number
for 10 randomly selected pods
Seed
shape
(SEEDSHAPE)
1 Globose
2 Ovoid
3 Drum-shaped
4 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor)
Seed colour
(SEEDCOLOR)
|
V. mungo |
V. radiata |
|
1 Light green |
1 Light green |
|
2 Green-brown |
2 Dark green |
|
3 Brown |
3 Green-yellow |
|
4 Chocolate |
4 Yellow |
|
5 Black |
5 Brown |
|
6 Mottled |
6 Mottled |
|
7 Other: |
7
Other: (please specify in the NOTES descriptor) |
Lustre /
gloss on seed surface
(SEEDGLOSS)
0 Absent
(dull)
+ / 9 Present (shiny)
Hilum
(HILUM)
1 Concave
(deeply furrowed aril prominent)
2 Non-concave (aril not prominent)
1000 Seed
weight / 1000 kernel mass
[g]
(TKM)
Weight of
1000 randomly selected seeds
Sowing
date
(SOWINGDATE)
Harvest
date
(first, second and third harvest or main harvest)
(HARVESTDATE)
Days
to emergence
(from sowing to 50% seedling emergence
(DAYSEMERGE)
Leaf colour
(Intensity of green colour of trifoliate leaves at 50% flowering)
(LEAFCOLOR)
3 Light
green
5 Intermediate green
7 Dark green
Plant
height
[cm] (mean of 10 randomly selected drawn-out plants)
(PLANTHEIGHT )
Days to
flowering
(from sowing to stage when 50% of plants have begun to flower) (DAYSFLOWER)
Calyx
colour
(CALYXCOLOR)
1 Green
2 Purplish green
3 Greenish purple
4 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor)
Corolla
colour
(Colour
of wings and standard of freshly opened flowers)
(COROLLACOLOR)
1 Yellow
2 Greenish yellow
3 Yellowish green
4 Green-purplish yellow
5 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor)
Pod
pubescence
(When
first pod changes colour )
(PODPUB)
0 Glabrous
3 Puberulent (sparsely pubescent)
5 Moderately pubescent
7 Densely pubescent
Pod
length
[cm]
(PODLENGTH)
Mean of 10
randomly selected mature pods
Pod
shattering in the field
(PODSHATTER)
0 Absent
+ / 9 Present
Pod
cross-section
(of mature
pod)
(PODCROSS)
1 Semi-flat
2 Round
Pod beak
shape
(PODBEAKSHAPE)
1 Hook
2 Knob
3 Other (specify in the NOTES descriptor)
Constriction
of pod between seeds
(PODCONSTRICT)
When pod
changes colour
0 Absent
+ / 9 Present
Protein
content
[%] (on dry seed weight bases)
(PROTEIN)
Notes
(NOTES)
Descriptors
which were mentioned as OTHER in the above traits.