PlantDB - a versatile database for managing plant research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research in plant science laboratories often involves usage of many different species, cultivars, ecotypes, mutants, alleles or transgenic lines. This creates a great challenge to keep track of the identity of experimental plants and stored samples or seeds.

Results

Here, we describe PlantDB - a Microsoft(R) Office Access database - with a user-friendly front-end for managing information relevant for experimental plants. PlantDB can hold information about plants of different species, cultivars or genetic composition. Introduction of a concise identifier system allows easy generation of pedigree trees. In addition, all information about any experimental plant - from growth conditions and dates over extracted samples such as RNA to files containing images of the pla

SUBMITTER: Exner V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2235859 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature