International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants (ICMP)

Occurrence
Latest version published by Landcare Research on Mar 9, 2026 Landcare Research
Publication date:
9 March 2026
Published by:
Landcare Research
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Culture data from the International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants (ICMP).

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 21,446 records.

3 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
21446
Identification 
59743
LocalContextProject 
21598
Multimedia 
15148

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Landcare Research (2014-) International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants (ICMP) culture data.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Landcare Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3c6e7390-3b56-11dc-8c19-b8a03c50a862.  Landcare Research publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF New Zealand.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Aaron Wilton
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Products Owner
Manaaki Whenua Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute
Lincoln
NZ
Bevan Weir
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collection Curator
Manaaki Whenua Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute
Auckland
NZ

Geographic Coverage

The fungal cultures from around the world, but are mainly from New Zealand and the South Pacific region. The bacterial cultures have a global distribution, including types of almost all bacterial plant pathogens

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Bacteria, Chromista, Fungi

Collection Data

Collection Name International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants
Specimen preservation methods Freeze-dried,  Deep frozen
Curatorial Units Count 19,000 +/- 500 cultures

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 3c6e7390-3b56-11dc-8c19-b8a03c50a862
https://ipt.landcareresearch.co.nz/resource?r=icmp