cytotaxonomy

New ChromoDB dataset on Zenodo: 50 years of chromosome records from The Iranian Journal of Botany

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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.

Welcome to the ChromoDB Blog: Our Project and First Datasets Are Now Live!

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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