EPPO code

ID eppo_code

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

This record is a draft: it has not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong. Do not rely on it for compliance decisions. Help improve it (see CONTRIBUTING.md).

Code of an organism or group in the EPPO Global Database of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization, used in plant protection, pesticide and crop data. A plant species has five letters (three from the genus, two from the species), a pest or pathogen six letters (four and two), a virus a six-character acronym. Codes of genera and families start with 1 and end with G or F.

Categories: Agriculture, livestock and food, Scientific
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Wikidata: P3031
Quality: 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^[0-9A-Z]{5,6}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
ZEAMX	Zea mays (maize); Wikidata example
CARPPO	Cydia pomonella (codling moth); Wikidata example
1TUTAG	Genus Tuta
zeamx invalid	Lower case; EPPO codes are upper case

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	Код EPPO	Код организма или группы в глобальной базе данных Европейской и средиземноморской организации по карантину и защите растений (EPPO). Используется в данных о защите растений, пестицидах и культурах.

Sources

doc: https://www.eppo.int/RESOURCES/eppo_databases/eppo_codes
doc: https://gd.eppo.int/
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3031

Use this record

Page URL: https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/eppo_code
JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/agriculture/eppo_code.yaml on GitHub