Talk:GRIN-Global

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Page scope

GRIN-Global is about GRIN-Global, the online catalogue of the United States National Plant Germplasm System and the gene bank software of the same name: how it came about, which gene banks use the software, what an accession record holds, its licence and what the catalogue holds for Cannabis. The collections themselves are covered under National Plant Germplasm System.

Sourcing

The history of the software comes from the GRIN-Global project's pages, the USDA's software notice, the Agricultural Research Service's entries in the federal data catalogue, a 2010 paper by the project team and a 2016 Crop Trust article. The licence comes from the same catalogue entries and the software notice. The counts come from the catalogue's search and summary pages and carry their date. Discuss attribution, independent sourcing and any claim that has lost its attribution here.

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First published

The infobox gives 2015, the year the National Plant Germplasm System's collections moved onto GRIN-Global. The software was first released in December 2011 and other gene banks used it before 2015. Its predecessor, GRIN, dates from the mid-1980s.

Counts

The Cannabis counts are those of the catalogue's search on 13 November 2026. The summary page dates its totals 12 November 2026. Both change as accessions are added and withdrawn. The 873 Cannabis entries include 159 historic entries and 18 vouchers of protected cultivars, so the number of hemp accessions held at Geneva is 696.

Licence

The public-domain label is the one the Agricultural Research Service gives GRIN and the GRIN-Global project in the federal data catalogue. The software notice dedicates the software to the public. The catalogue's own pages carry no separate statement on reuse of the accession data.