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. 2010 Oct 20;5(10):e13497. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013497

Table 1. List of institutions from which data was harvested.

Institution Number of records with coordinates Number of records without coordinates
Genebank accessions
Bioversity International 7 51
CIAT-Genetic Resources Unit (via SINGER) 2278 250
German National Resource Centre for Biological Material (DSMZ) 0 2
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) 0 271
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) 0 21
National Vegetable Germplasm Bank, Mexico (BANGEV) 7 0
Native Seeds/SEARCH (NSS) 37 1
Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR) 0 17
US National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS-GRIN) 1081 771
Sub-total 3410 1384
Herbarium samples
A Database System for Systematics and Taxonomy (SysTax) 2 49
Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium 829 172
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 0 1
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem 0 1
Cahiers de Phaseologie (DGD) 1486 182
Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility 0 1
Colorado State University Herbarium (CSU) 33 4
Comision nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad (CONABIO) 1049 360
Dutch national node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) 0 25
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium 2 18
GBIF-Spain 0 5
GBIF-Sweden 0 6
Harvard University Herbaria 2 86
Herbarium of the University of Aarhus 8 0
Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, (IBUNAM) 0 2
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales 22 68
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica) 78 0
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) 8 0
Louisiana State University Herbarium 0 9
Missouri Botanical Garden 713 621
Museo Nacional de Costa Rica 100 45
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle et Réseau des Herbiers de France 4 0
National Botanic Garden of Belgium (NBGB) 70 20
National Museum of Natural History 28 64
NatureServe 0 134
NavNat, GE, FR 2 0
New Mexico Biodiversity Collections Consortium 0 112
New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) 7 4
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1 2
The Deaver Herbarium, Northern Arizona University 8 0
University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics 6 0
University of California, Davis 0 7
University of Connecticut 1 0
University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center 1 3
USDA Plants 402 65
Utah Valley State College (UVSC) 1 3
Sub-total 4863 2069
Total (genebank accessions and herbarium samples) 8273 3453