Hortivar: Horticulture Cultivars Performance Database. Version 2.1

HORTIVAR has been conceived as a tool for safeguarding information on the field performances of horticulture cultivars in relation to agro-ecological conditions, cultivation practices, resistance to pests and diseases and market requirements. There is a need to store and easily retrieve information published in technical documents or recorded in field experiments. Horticulture research stations all over the world have carried out field trials to assess the performance of horticulture cultivars. This wealth of information is however not easily accessible. Furthermore the methodology applied for data recording varies from country to country or even within the country from one institution to another. HORTIVAR is a centralised information base for the retrieval of data on the performances of horticulture cultivars throughout the world and also serves as a standardised data recording methodology for field trial and observations.