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The GLOPP project started in the summer of 2000 and will continue until spring 2003. It aims to provide a unified view of data about fungi parasitizing higher plants. The information system will integrate data on host plant specificity, geographical distribution, and a core set of descriptive characters that allow an interactive online identification. Since our resources are limited, European pathogens will be treated with priority, to guarantee high data quality and a certain completeness. We plan to continue our work within the framework of international, collaborative successor projects.
Note that currently not many functional public interfaces are available, since most of our development is either unfinished or so active that we cannot maintain a functional webservice. We expect to have a very powerful and valuable web service running by May 2003, please check back with us then. However, a first prototype version of the host-pathogen index is on the web! Please take also a look at our Key to the major groups of plant parasitic microfungi in Europe. Criticism and comments are highly welcome!
We are in the process of developing a set of database applications called DiversityWorkbench to support our work. These applications (which require Microsoft Access 2000) are already freely available to other projects, although they are mostly in a beta-development stage.
For further information, you can:
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View pdf-files of the posters presented at the
International Mycological Congress IMC 7 in Oslo in August 2002. 
announcing the start of the GLOPP Project
University of Tübingen, Institute of Special Botany and Mycology
Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry,
Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology and Biological Safety
Botanische Staatssammlung München, Department of Mycology
University of Halle, Institute of Geobotany and Botanical Garden
