Imagining a Visual Catalogue for plant genetic resources at the local and national level.

Plant genetic resource consumers, such as breeders, blame germplasm underutilization for a lack of data, precise attribute description, and plant passports. Without this information, exploiting genetic resources becomes extremely challenging. On the other hand, gene bank managers, for example, need data to efficiently manage their resources and share it with potential users who regularly exchange or order germplasm. Thus, the improper collection and recording of valuable data penalizes the reuse of germplasm. The best germplasm conservation and use depend on provenance, characterization, and performance. To this end, data management programmes within FAIRagro could support cataloguing plant genetic resources at the local, national (and international levels) and add value to such information through a map service. This will greatly increase the findability and accessibility of breeding materials both for the breeders and data modellers. Such a visual catalogue will benefit plant breeding by facilitating crop variety recording, updating, modification, and retrieval, and it may be interesting to the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).