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Genebank details

Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza

The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE, for its acronym in Spanish) is devoted to agricultural research and education in Latin America. CATIE's genebank currently holds important collections on diverse crops, such as coffee, cacao, peach palm, cucurbitas, tomato and chilli. CATIE has a mandate to conserve the genetic resources relevant to mesoamerica.

Coffee, cacao and peach palm are conserved in a field collection, whereas horticultural crops are conserved in CATIE's cold chamber. CATIE's collections are part of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and are therefore available to users.

Safety duplications have been made to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (horticultural crops and legumes, mainly), the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins - Colorado (coffee seeds under cryopreservation), WorldVeg (horticultural crops), CIAT (beans and cassava), and IITA (yam).

Institute code
CRI001
Show in FAO WIEWS database
Type
Regional
Country
Costa Rica
Web link
http://www.catie.ac.cr
Data provider
CATIE Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center
Accessions in Genesys
10,950
Location
Latitude
9.8
Longitude
-83.8
Most represented Crops
coffee
1,890
squashes
1,608
maize
402
tomato
346
chillies
272
Other
693
Not specified
5,739
Most represented Crop names
Coffee
1,890
Squash
1,608
Cocoa
1,232
Common bean
665
Peach palm
614
Other
4,829
Not specified
112
Most represented Genera
Cucurbita
2,114
Coffea
1,990
Theobroma
1,251
Phaseolus
1,152
Capsicum
878
Other
3,565
Most represented Species
Coffea arabica
1,826
Cucurbita moschata
1,608
Theobroma cacao
1,231
Phaseolus vulgaris
665
Bactris gasipaes
472
Other
5,148
Biological status of accession
Traditional cultivar/Landrace
9,512
Breeding/Research Material
1,190
Wild
151
Advanced/improved cultivar
66
Weedy
31
Provenance of material
Costa Rica
3,076
Guatemala
2,067
Mexico
578
Ethiopia
574
United States of America
529
Other
3,817
Not specified
309
Type of Germplasm storage
Long term seed collection
6,122
Field collection
4,824
Not specified
4
Curation type
Not specified
10,950
FAO WIEWS code of donor institute
CRI001
43
Not specified
10,907
Breeder code
Not specified
10,950
Site of safety duplication
TWN001
402
NGA039
40
COL003
27
Not specified
10,481
Safety duplicated in Svalbard
Not in SGSV
10,950
ITGPRFA Multi-lateral system
Accession is part of the Multi-lateral system of ITPGRFA
9,275
Accession is not in the Multi-lateral system of ITPGRFA
143
Not specified
1,532
Available for distribution
Not specified
10,950
Last updates of passport data
May 3, 2019
3,479
March 25, 2019
7,471
Passport Data Completeness Index (PDCI)
Genesys uses the PDCI as an indicator of the completeness of published passport data. The PDCI uses the presence or absence of data points in the documentation of a genebank accession, taking into account the presence or value of other data points (van Hintum et al. 2011). For example, a wild accession should have a well-defined collection site but no variety name. The PDCI ranges from 0 to 10, where 0 is the minimum score assigned to rather incomplete passport records and 10 is the maximum score assigned to very complete passport records. Any type of accession, wild, landrace, breeding material or modern variety, can attain the PDCI’s maximal score.
Average PDCI score for 10,950 accessions is 5.33, with minimum score of 2.40 and maximum score of 6.95.