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PLANT METHODS
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-4-1
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- SNF [3100AO-116060]
- ETH [TH-16/05-2]
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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 plants - can be linked unequivocally. Conclusion: We have been using PlantDB for several years in our laboratory and found that it greatly facilitates access to relevant information.
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