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PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES INFORMATION SYSTEM OF SLOVAKIA AS THE PRIMARY
SOURCE OF INFORMATION
Ľubomír Mendel, Pavol Hauptvogel, Iveta Čičová

National Agricultural and Food Centre, Research Institute of Plant Production, Dept. Gene Bank, Slovak
Republic; E-mail.: lubomir.mendel@nppc.sk
GRISS is a new plant germplasm protection information system (IS) that will replace the
current EVIGEN off-line documentation system used since the opening of Gene Bank in 1996.
IS GRISS is fully compatible with the passport descriptors standards of FAO/Bioversity
Multicrop Passport Descriptors (MCPD v.2.1). GRISS is determined to comprehensive
management of accessions of plant genetic resources stored in the National Agricultural and
Food Centre, Research Institute of Plant Production in Piešťany in the Gene Bank in
accordance with international principles and in accordance with the National Programme. IS
GRISS presents the platform for information about ex situ plant collections maintained in
Slovak republic. GRISS allows users to search and obtain information about a number of crop
species such as cereals, legumes, fodder crop, medicinal and aromatic plants, wild species,
landraces and breeding lines. IS GRISS allows search by crop, taxonomy, country of origin,
acquisition, accessions status and other passport descriptors. The collected germplasm is
freely available for use in scientific research programs. IS GRISS provides access to
information not only the managers of gene banks but also provides information’s to others
curators of collections, scientists, breeders, farmers, students and the general public
responses. The information system GRISS is freely accessible at web portal
http://griss.vurv.sk.
IS GRISS allows curators of collections of plant genetic resources automated support for
all activities related to the creation and management of passport data and
characterization/evaluation data. IS GRISS is designed as a web application that provides a
sophisticated web interface for simple data input via a web browser. It enables effective
management of the collections. IS GRISS was built as an open system and modular scalable
system. The modular system architecture allows its future expansion with additional
subsystems such as barcode, image analysis and geographic information systems (GIS).
Thanks to the new IS GRISS for PGR data documentation mainly good interconnection of
all three main working areas: passport, characterization/evaluation and storage parts and
profiting from the construction of descriptor lists published by Bioversity. The main effect of
the new IS GRISS is overall increase in the quality of documentation of plant genetic resources
in the Slovak Republic, where the curators of the new system enable more effective
management of PGR collections as well as significantly improve the efficiency of selecting the
most suitable resources for the specified use (breeding or experimental material etc.). The
system also facilitates getting information about PGR and also enabled online orders of PGR
provided from the gene bank for home and foreign users. At international level has improved
compatibility with other documentation systems and international data exchange, mainly for
EURISCO.
Keywords: plant genetic resources, accessions, information system, GRISS, web application, passport
data, evaluation data.
Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the Operational Programme Research and Development for the project:
'Transfer, use and dissemination of research results of plant genetic resources for food and
agriculture' (ITMS: 26220220058), co-financed from the resources of the European Union Fund for
Regional Development.

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