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Is there an acronym glossary somewhere?

I've seen a ton of acronyms and initials and have figured some out but am still in the dark on others.

For example:
MOA - ministry of agriculture
TFM - Trenton farmers market
JPGS - Jay's peach ghost scorpion
JRGS - Jay's red ghost scorpion
BBG7 - bubblegum 7 pot

Here are some I don't know the answer to:
MAMP
CI (as in a pepper called CI xxx)
CAP (same as above)
CGN (same as above)

I know there are others I've seen and wondered "wtf does that mean?!?!"

Looking forward to the replies!
 
CAP, CGN, CPI, PI and others are acronyms for the research institutes who discovered the variety, here you can find the meanings:
 
http://www.thechileman.org/guide_research.php
 
The other ones are names given by the grower to "take property" of a variety (eg. "THSC Scorpion", stands for The Hippy Seed Company) or simply to give a short name to a variety (eg. on Semillas.de you will find JAFSH, which stands for "Just Another Fu**ing Super Hot").
 
Stay on the official ones, as at this point everyone will be claiming the intellectual property of a cultivar, no matter how casually he obtained it.
 
Not mentioned, CARDI: Carribean Agricultural Research & Development Institute
SR: Sara Ragoonanan (Trinidadian woman who helped to know many Trinidad landraces)
CP: Christopher Phillips, one of the most estimated growers in the world
 
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