# GRIN-Global:                Empowering and enabling crop diversity            

                Search over **600,000** active accessions            

## What is GRIN?

            The Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) provides information about USDA national collections of             animal, microbial, and plant genetic resources (germplasm) important for food and agricultural production.             GRIN documents these collections through informational pages, searchable databases, and links to USDA-ARS             projects that curate the collections.        

            GRIN products include several applications developed by the             National Germplasm Resources Laboratory in Beltsville, MD.             GRIN-Global includes the ARS version of a             public website for the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System, which curates more than 600,000 active accessions of plant genetic resources for food            and agriculture.        

GRIN-U is a collaboratively developed site that provides freely available educational and training            content on plant genetic resources conservation and use.        

## Plant Germplasm

The National Plant Germplasm System (NGPS) is a collaborative effort to safeguard the genetic diversity of agriculturally important plants. The mission of the NPGS is to support agricultural production by acquiring, conserving, evaluating, documenting, and distributing crop germplasm.

##                                     Animal Germplasm                                

                                Animal genetic resources underpin the livestock sector’s production and profitability.                                 As a result livestock industries contribute billions of dollars to national economies.                                 Our mission is to acquire, evaluate and preserve these strategic resources so that industry                                 and the research community can have access to a broad array of genetic variability for national                                 security, the introduction of genetic variation, corrective mating, and various research                                 initiatives.                            

##                                     Micriobial Germplasm                                

                                The goal of this program is to ensure that the genetic diversity of agriculturally                                 important microorganisms is maintained to enhance and increase agricultural efficiency                                 and profitability.The program will collect, authenticate and characterize potentially                                 useful microbial germplasm; preserve microbial genetic diversity; and facilitate                                 distribution and utilization of microbial germplasm for research and industry.                            

##                                     GRIN Datasets                                

                                GRIN provides access to data maintained within its database, supporting both searches and export.                                 The Rhizobium collection of nitrogen fixing bacteria is maintained by the                                                                     ARS Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory                                 in Beltsville, MD. Plant Variety Protection Certificates are issued                                 by the                                     Plant Variety Protection Office of the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service.                                

## GRIN Datasets

### Plant Variety Protection

          -  PVP Application Dataset
                                        The Plant Variety Protection Office (PVPO) publishes the status of Plant Variety Protection Applications                                        on a monthly basis.                                    
-  Contact:  PVPOmail@usda.gov 
-  Last Update:  January 13, 2023                                        
 

### Rhizobium

          -                                              Rhizobium Dataset                                        
                                        A service-oriented program with a major objective of distributing                                         characterized germplasm of rhizobia to stakeholders in industry                                         for use in inoculants and for research at State, Federal and                                         University laboratories.                                    
-  Contact:  Patrick Elia 
-  Last Update:  1/10/2020