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Regarding the aims of MMPND, the following is said: "... the intention is to cover as many useful plants as possible. What is useful in one part of the world however can be a weed, even a noxious weed, in another. Our political stand is that, whether it is a selection or a species, if it is declared useful by some people, provided that we can get a minimum of information about it and that we can handle the data, it is in. We basically foresee 8 categories of plants. In order of decreasing importance we will consider: Vegetables, Cereals, Fruits, Mushrooms / Fungi, Herbs, Pasture / Fodder Crops, Medicinal plants, and what may be termed "Utilitarian crops" such as fibre, oil crops, stimulants etc. We feel that in the last fifty years the first 3 categories have been attracting far too little attention from taxonomists, especially below the species level. These three groups of edible plants include all the world staple foods and their related cultivars and selections. These have been bred and improved over centuries. They are the basic ingredients of the world ethnic cuisines ...".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/new/Sorting/Admin.html|title=MMPND, Aims}}</ref>
The first objective was to focus on useful plants, the cultivated ones, but the database currently contains the names of plants of economic importance as well as names of savage plants. For each genus, the last updating is indicated.
These multilingual names are presented by genera, as follows:
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