Revitalization of the Greek Vitis database: a multimedia web-backed genetic database for germplasm management of Vitis resources in Greece

ABSTRACT Lefort and Roubelakis-Angelakis ([2000. The Greek Vitis Database: A multimedia web-backed genetic database for germplasm management of Vitis resources in Greece. Journal of Wine Research, 11(3), 233–242. https://doi.org/10.1080/713684241)] were the first to develop a Greek Vitis multimedia web-backed service at the Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology of the University of Crete 20 years ago. This service was named Greek Vitis Database (GVD) and it provided free access to six databases, gathering information about Greek cultivars of Vitis vinifera: an information database; a nuclear single sequence repeats (nSSR) microsatellite profiles database; a chloroplast microsatellite (cpSSR) database; a combined nSSR – cpSSR profiles database; an ampelographic database; and a rootstock database. Information and descriptive images were combined with SSR profiles. Although simple sequence repeats are still the markers of choice for compilation, standardization and exchange of information regarding grapevine genetic resources, the advances in computing technology through the years made the GDV inactive. This report is to announce the renovation and revitalization of GVD using new computing technologies. The GVD can now be accessible at http://greekvitisdb.biology.uoc.gr or in the previous address http://www.biology.uoc.gr/gvd redirected.