A checklist of wild sorghum species occurring in Malawi
Latest version published by Malawi Plant Genetic Resources Centre (MPGRC) on Mar 27, 2019
This is a checklist of wild sorghum species observed in Malawi. This resource is submitted under BID_AF2017_0265_SMA project that supported data mobilization of the same. It should be noted that some species had their nomenclature status confirmed while one was not recorded in the The Plant list and is yet to be updated once such data is available. Some species are accepted and others are synonyms of the accepted species. For the sake of maintaining originality of the data, the species were reported as observed.
Data Records
The data in this checklist 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 9 records.
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.
Downloads
Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:
| Data as a DwC-A file | download 9 records in English (4 KB) - Update frequency: unknown |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (10 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (9 KB) |
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Khaki Mponya N (2019): A checklist of wild sorghum species occurring in Malawi. v1.0. Malawi Plant Genetic Resources Centre (MPGRC). Dataset/Checklist. http://41.77.13.208:8081/ipt
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Malawi Plant Genetic Resources Centre (MPGRC). 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: e57c7fc6-6a17-4079-9ef5-e2265c6411cf. Malawi Plant Genetic Resources Centre (MPGRC) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Malawi.
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Geographic Coverage
Wild sorghum species were observed across the regions of Malawi.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-16.762, 33.091], North East [-9.362, 35.947] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All wild sorghum plants were identified to family, order and genus. Some were identified to species level and others to species and subspecies level.
| Family | Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Sorghum) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1870-04-22 / 2018-05-27 |
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Project Data
The species in the checklist were extracted from the occurrence data-set published by MPGRC and further description on the purpose and project impact areas can be found in the metadata of the occurrence data provided.
| Title | A checklist of wild sorghum species occurring in Malawi |
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| Identifier | BID-AF2017-0265-SMA |
| Funding | The project was supported by European Union and Global Biodiversity Information Facility(GBIF) under the initiative Biodiversity Information for Development(BID) |
| Study Area Description | The research was conducted in Malawi by the Malawi Plant Genetic Resources Centre referred herein as MPGRC in collaboration with University of Birmingham, National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of Malawi and Lilongwe University for Agriculture and Natural Resources. Species reported in this study were observed across the country. |
| Design Description | The aim of this research was to establish wild sorghum species that occur in number, their diversity and spatial distribution with an aim of developing measures for their sustainable conservation and promoting their use in crop improvement as some of these are reported to harbor some adaptive traits such as pests and disease resistance. |
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Sampling Methods
Refer to Species occurrence metadata
| Study Extent | Similar to Species occurrence metadata |
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| Quality Control | Refer to above |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://41.77.13.208:8081/ipt/resource?r=npgrc |
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