INTRODUCTION ndonesia is one of the tropical countries known as megabiodiversity country rich in plant genetic resources (PGR). PGR is very important for keeping balance ecosystems and biosphere life system. The lost and erosion of PGR, which have been due to human activities, caused the unbalance ecosystems on earth which in turn affect human life. PGR must be evaluated for their useful characteristics and be well described to be of use for farmers and breeders. There also proposed strategy to make it easier to locate useful varieties and genes in collections by developing properly identified core sub-sets of larger collections, through the development of better database.

Underutilized crops suffer from a lack of dedicated research centers which leads to unavailability of centralized and organized database. Research on underutilized crops requires identification data of the places where the crops are grown, planted and used as food, feed or in commercialized products. This will lead to the