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[EN] Management and distribution of experimental data from prebreeding projects is important to ensure uptake of germplasm into breeding and research programs. Being able to access and share this data in standard formats ...[+]
[EN] Management and distribution of experimental data from prebreeding projects is important to ensure uptake of germplasm into breeding and research programs. Being able to access and share this data in standard formats is essential. The adoption of a common informatics platform for crops that may have limited resources brings economies of scale, allowing common informatics components to be used across multiple species. The close integration of such a platform with commonly used breeding software, visualization, and analysis tools reduces the barrier for entry to researchers and provides a common framework to facilitate collaborations and data sharing. This work presents significant updates to the Germinate platform and highlights its value in distributing prebreeding data for 14 crops as part of the project 'Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives' (hereafter Crop Trust Crop Wild Relatives project) led by the Crop Trust (https://www.cwrdiversity.org). The addition of data on these species compliments data already publicly available in Germinate. We present a suite of updated Germinate features using examples from these crop species and their wild relatives. The use of Germinate within the Crop Trust Crop Wild Relatives project demonstrates the usefulness of the system and the benefits a shared informatics platform provides. These data resources provide a foundation on which breeding and research communities can develop additional online resources for their crops, harness new data as it becomes available, and benefit collectively from future developments of the Germinate platform.
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This work was undertaken as part of the initiative 'Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives,' which is supported by the Government of Norway. The project is managed ...[+]
This work was undertaken as part of the initiative 'Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives,' which is supported by the Government of Norway. The project is managed by the Global Crop Diversity Trust with the Millennium Seed Bank of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and implemented in partnership with national and international genebanks and plant breeding institutes around the world. For further information, see the project website: http://www.cwrdiversity.org.The authors also gratefully acknowledge funding from the Scottish Government's Rural and Environmental Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) division, Scottish Environment Food and Agriculture Research Institutes (SEFARI), the International Barley Hub (IBH) and the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. Grant ID TWCF0400 ' Safeguarding crop diversity for food security: Prebreeding complemented with Innovative Finance.' Additional funding for Germinate components was provided by Seeds of Discovery (SeeD) Initiative component MasAgro Biodiversidad, funded through the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro) Project by the Secretaria de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural (SADER) of the government of Mexico as well as the MAIZE and WHEAT CGIAR Research Programs and the International Wheat Yield Partnership (IWYP). We would also like to thank colleagues at the James Hutton Institute, in particular, members of the Information and Computational Sciences and Cell and Molecular Sciences Departments in Invergowrie for their help and support throughout this work. Additionally, we would like to thank all of those who have been generous enough with their time, enthusiasm, and feedback over the development of Germinate and their help in carrying out user testing on the platform without whom projects such as these would not succeed.
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