There’s a website called Plants Map which lets you manage and share information about the precise location and characteristics of the plants you grow, including photos, and even print out nice labels, complete with QR codes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmonl8lszIwThe target audience seems to be gardens (including botanical gardens), nurseries, and the like. But it could be field genebanks, couldn’t it? Or even seed banks, with a little tweaking, and location on the shelf taking the place of latitude and longitude. Something for Genesys to learn from?
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We are thinking a lot about this sort of platform at Seed Savers Exchange. Gardeners need better tools to learn what grows well in their area. In this day and age, there are so many models for citizen science projects like that… we just need the funding and a reliable coding partner to make one definitive site for data collection and dissemination. Such a tool would be very useful for breeders and genebanks too looking to crowd source the acts of assessing lines and identifying novel traits — but it would require breeders to screen in a different manner, that being they would need to ask simpler questions and be more open to qualitative data.