Genebank details
Seed Savers Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange is a non-profit, membership organization with the mission of conserving agricultural biodiversity. Seed Savers Exchange maintains both seed and vegetative collections of fruit, vegetable, and flower cultivars with an emphasis on family heirlooms and historic commercial varieties with a history of use in the United States.
Seed Savers Exchange distributes to members within the United States. More information about the organization can be found at SeedSavers.org.
Institute code
Type
Non-Governmental
Country
Web link
Data provider
Accessions in Genesys
Most represented Crop names
tomato
5,770
beans
5,059
lettuce
996
maize
846
apple
825
Other
268
Not specified
12,619
Biological status of accession
Advanced/improved cultivar
Curation type
Not specified
26,383
FAO WIEWS code of donor institute
Not specified
26,383
Breeder code
Not specified
26,383
ITGPRFA Multi-lateral system
Not specified
26,383
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 26,383 accessions is 3.47, with minimum score of 2.25 and maximum score of 4.70.