Template:GRIN

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"GRIN". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.

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This external link template is underused, compared to the number of links to the site it represents (check here). Please help convert those links to make use of this template, for ease of tracking, and ease of interoperability with Wikidata.

Usage

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This template uses the Wikidata properties:

GRIN URL (P1421) (see uses)
taxon name (P225) (see uses)

Use this template to add a reference to a species page on the web site GRIN. At the moment, it cannot link to pages on other taxonomic ranks, such as genera and families.

Note: This template is designed to support WikipediaBioReferences and retrieves Wikidata. Do not edit this template unless you are familiar with these functionalities or are copying updated code from commons.

This template accepts all parameters that {{citation}} accepts.

Syntax

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Simple

Simply use the tag by itself or leave the id parameter blank to generate a citation/link of Wikidata's corresponding GRIN link for the current plant species. Wikidata: has GRIN links for most of the Wikipedia species on the GRIN database.

{{GRIN}}

Example: Adding {{GRIN}} to the Maize page creates (in the beginning of 2020) the following:
"Zea mays". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Advanced formatting and parameter options

{{GRIN | id | description | validity | access-date = 20 January 2026 }}

{{GRIN | name = | id = | access-date = 20 January 2026 }}

{{GRIN | access-date = 20 January 2026 }}

Parameters

|mode=

By default Citation Style 1; switch to Citation Style 2 with |mode=cs2.

|id=

the id of the species on GRIN web site.

How to retrieve the id: use the search page to retrieve the correct page.
In the url https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?3074 the id is 3074

Sample (for ananas): 3074

|name= (optional)

The name of the taxon

Sample (for ananas): Ananas comosus

|authors= (optional)

The taxon authors

Sample (for ananas): (L.) Merr.

|validity= (optional)

If the genus is considered as unaccepted or synonym by GRIN, add nv.

Sample (for searching example): nv

|access-date=20 January 2026 (optional)

Specify the date the article was accessed.

Samples

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{{GRIN | name = ''Daucus glochidiatus'' (Labill.) Fisch. & C. A. Mey. | id = 102093 | access-date = 20 January 2026 }}; {{GRIN | mode = cs2 | name = ''Daucus glochidiatus'' (Labill.) Fisch. & C. A. Mey. | id = 102093 | access-date = 20 January 2026 }}; {{GRIN | ''Daucus glochidiatus'' (Labill.) Fisch. & C. A. Mey. | 102093 | access-date = 20 January 2026 }}; {{GRIN | 3074 | ''Ananas comosus'' (L.) Merr. | | | access-date = 20 January 2026 }}; {{GRIN | 3074 | ''Ananas comosus'' | | access-date = 20 January 2026 }}; {{GRIN | 3074 | ''Ananas comosus'' | nv }}; {{GRIN | 3074 }}; {{GRIN | ''Daucus glochidiatus''}}; {{GRIN}}
Results: "Daucus glochidiatus (Labill.) Fisch. & C. A. Mey". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 20 January 2026.; "Daucus glochidiatus (Labill.) Fisch. & C. A. Mey.", Germplasm Resources Information Network, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, retrieved 20 January 2026; "Daucus glochidiatus (Labill.) Fisch. & C. A. Mey". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 20 January 2026.; "Ananas comosus (L.) Merr". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 20 January 2026.; "Ananas comosus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 20 January 2026.; "Ananas comosus Synonym". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.; "GRIN". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.; "Daucus glochidiatus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.; "GRIN". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.

(The last 2 examples would have working links if added to a species article with corresponding "GRIN URL" Wikidata.)

Usage

Syntax

Samples

See also