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Complete list of 2871 existing and formerly held accessions held by GRIN

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This is a list of every variety ever held at the USDA. The first one was collected in 1898 and no longer held in the collection, but the historic data has been preserved. There are a lot of duplicates of the same name, but different data for each. There is still no listing for Monte Calme, but that's not to say it isn't a legitimate strain.

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I'd really like to figure out a way to download all the observations and basic information on each variety. I'd bet it's just a matter of time before the entire Nicotiana data base is eliminated from the GRIN website.
 

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You can download pcGRIN here: http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/pcgrin.html, along with its user manual. You can select the genus/species data that you want, and download that. I have it on my computer, and have occasionally explored it. It seems to contain all the descriptors you find online for all of Nicotiana spp. I find pcGRIN really difficult to use.

What is missing is all the pdf files of the original accession documents. Those can be downloaded at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/pi_books/scans/vol.html. Unfortunately, there are 217 volumes of scanned pdf files, many of which exceed 40 MB each. That would be in the range of 10 GB of files. I have begun to email, one at a time, anyone listed as "Information Technology" on this page: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/locations/people.htm?modecode=12-75-15-00, to see if I can get them all burned onto DVDs.

I'll keep you posted.

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Breathtaking. It's stunning how many varieties have been forever lost.

Bob

I think a generation from now people will look back at the existing database and say the same thing. Tobacco is such an evil thing these days that I think in the future there will hardly be ANY tobacco cultivars left!
 

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Computers make so much information available and savable, but books don't get deleted or taken offline. If everything in their database is backed up and made unavailable to the public, the funding shortage should not be an issue for saving the info. Gigobytes remind me of light years. No one person needs all that info but a multitude of peoples could benefit from specifics from all that info relating to there needs.
 
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