What I should have mentioned in my recent post on online information resources for wheat varieties, as Jeremy then pointed out to me, is that those linkages between the different databases that I was hoping for are going to be much easier to make and maintain if we had a system of digital object identifiers (DOI) in place for wheat varieties. A DOI is a string that specifies a unique object within a particular system. The object could be a scientific publication. Or indeed a scientist. It is probably about time we implemented such a system for genebank accessions in general, and crop varieties in particular. No?
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