We have released on Zenodo a curated dataset of all original chromosome-number records published in The Iranian Journal of Botany over fifty years (1976–2026). It contains 810 records from 86 publications and covers 680 taxa, 130 of them endemic to Iran. Names are standardised against POWO, and the dataset includes a documented correction trail and a call for specialist review.
We are pleased to announce the first publication of ChromoDB – Chromosome Database for Plant Cytogenetics through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This initial release makes more than 206,000 plant chromosome records openly accessible through one of the world’s leading infrastructures for biodiversity data. Each record combines chromosome information with taxonomic and bibliographic data, … Read more
ChromoDB continues to grow as an open and curated resource for plant chromosome counts, but recent work has focused not only on adding new records, but also on improving how the database is discovered, explored and cited. Several updates have been introduced to make ChromoDB more useful for both users and search engines. Individual record … Read more
The ChromoDB project is pleased to announce the completion of the first major stages in the systematic integration of the foundational chromosome atlas by Fedorov et al. (1969). This massive undertaking aims to bring one of the most significant collections of cytogenetic data into a modern, interoperable framework. Phase 1 & 2: Data Processing and … Read more
We are thrilled to announce the official launch of the ChromoDB project, a new open science initiative dedicated to building a global, curated, and accessible database of plant chromosome numbers. The Problem We’re Solving For decades, valuable plant chromosome data has been scattered across thousands of publications, often with incomplete bibliographic references or inconsistent taxonomic … Read more
