Elevating Plant Breeding Success to New Heights!

Genovix is not only a tool to record data but an assistant to a breeder in terms of guiding for correct decision making. It's a very user friendly software, which allows us A to Z of Data analysis. We can create trials, record real time data via mobile app and do various kinds of analysis. The best part of it is breeding nursery management. We can create crosses and advance further till we get a fixed line. Being part of a commercial breeding team its very important for us to take timely decisions, which is facilitated by Genovix. The best part is we get all the support from the Genovix team as and when needed.

I have been using Agronomix software since 2012, first AGROBASE Gen II now Genovix. Last year the staff helped me migrate my database from AGROBASE to Genovix, solving me several problems due to my operating system. I can say that the use of Genovix is more intuitive and friendly thanks to its graphic interface, full of bars and icons. I use it both for the breeding management (crosses, population, nursery ...) and for agronomic trials, in fact there are many experimental designs that can be used.

In addition to data management and analysis, I also use Genovix for printing field books and labels (with barcode) to harvest and storage the samples.

There are several advantages I get from using Genovix, from retrieving years old data in few seconds, to comparing my work with colleagues thanks to the reports and the various graphs available, for example I think that the heat map function is very nice, that in my case helps me to highlight the variability of some traits respect to the field, for example yield and protein content. In short, I can’t imagine my work without the help of Genovix.

I’ve been using Genovix – before that AGROBASE – since 2006 (= all my time) at Sejet Plantbreeding, first as assistant and now as responsible for the Winter barley program. For me it appears the most complete software that I have experienced, to manage and analyze field trials. The solutions to set up field trials, transfer data back and forth between combines and other devices works nice and especially with the developments in Genovix it has become more intuitively. Genovix offers a range of pre-defined ways to analyze data, yet at the same time a flexibility to incorporate own formulas via for example R. This way we can run both the routine analyses and more special ones without having swap between platforms.

Another great thing using Genovix is the level of service we experience when encountering trouble or are on “deep water” exploring new features in the program – we always get a fast and positive reaction to our questions!

All in all we are very satisfied, and to me Genovix offers all the basics I need to run my breeding program – plus a bit more.

I have used AGROBASE for many years, since the version 4 for DOS, appreciating its potential and characteristics specifically designed for varietal testing and breeding.

I recently switched to Genovix and after an initial period of disorientation, due to the new interface and the significant increase in functionality and new options, I started to get used to it.

I must say that the improvements compared to the already efficient AGROBASE are many, and the ones I appreciated the most are the renewed Field Plan and the links to R, which allow us to perform many statistical analyses even for unbalanced data sets, and to adequately address the interpretation of genotype by environment interaction. I have a lot of compliments to the Agronomix developers for the excellent job they have done.

AGT used AGROBASE for 20 years and we have transitioned all of our field trial management and plant breeding systems to Genovix.

Since Dieter first gave us an insight to the design and structure of Genovix three years ago, we’ve been very excited about moving to Genovix, which is a genuine next generation in dedicated plant breeding software. The familiar and intuitive design of Genovix, combined with powerful and easy to use modules and tools is going to deliver efficiencies to AGT’s field, glass house and lab operations. AGT manages over 400,000 yield and observation plots, generating over 1,000,000 data points annually.

In addition to the team at Agronomix providing a plant breeding software that is second to none. They are so prompt to respond to any questions or support that we require especially when we acknowledge the fact that out time zones are almost completely incompatible. They don’t just answer questions, they also consider our feedback and adapt and develop software solutions to meet our needs.

Video: In James' own words

CoverCress is a very small startup company looking to develop Field Pennycress from a wild temperate weed into an ultra-low carbon footprint feedstock for renewable fuel production with a side product being a high protein animal feed. Our breeding program started with wild accessions back in 2014 and I soon realized that we needed a secure and efficient repository for our data that also provided experimental design and analysis tools among other features as we ramped up our breeding and testing programs.

We implemented AGROBASE along with AgroTab in 2016. The learning process was very iterative for AGROBASE, and eventually I began to be able to tie things together, although I never felt as though I became an expert. However, the fact that we did implement AGROBASE years ago and upgraded to AGROBASE Cloud has been very useful to us in demonstrating our data stewardship.

I have enjoyed the implementation of Genovix, and although it has taken a little time to get used to the new interface, I certainly find that the Genovix interface is substantially more intuitive and easier to learn than AGROBASE was. I have also found Agronomix’ Support services for Genovix to be very responsive and easy to work with. As CoverCress expands its staff and programs I believe Genovix and Genovix Mobile will be great tools to drive efficiency in our programs.

We Takii Seed have been using Genovix since 2021 as a company. Genovix suits our needs very much to change our breeding style from old (subjective, intuitive, independent) one to new (objective, logical, collaborative) one.

This software enables us easily to create proper experimental designs, collect large phenotypic data, do statistical analyses, share results with colleagues all over the world, and discuss them together, just in one cloud database! It must lead to better decision making in our breeding:)

And it is very helpful and encouraging that the support team is available to us clients. They hold 6-hour tutor training course first, offer over 135 good tutorial videos online, chat with us with our questions or concerns friendly, fix bugs immediately, and improve this software ongoingly. Their excellent sincere supports make us feel relieved and help us to use the software smoothly, like inhaling and exhaling.

We would highly recommend Genovix to plant breeders who would like to change ones’ breeding style, improve efficiency, and achieve better outcome.

I have been a user of AGROBASE at the SGI since 1993, the AGROBASE/4 DOS version. It has helped us keep all our data together. Where previously our data was all over all the computers in different file formats in our division, it was now connected to an entry for that specific year in a specific file, experiment or trial. With some power play, the data could be manipulated as I wanted it to analyse or display/print out.

When moving to AGROBASE Generation II – predecessor of Genovix - major problems were eliminated:

1. Names of traits, entries, localities, etc. needed to be changed only in one place and have it reflected through the whole program instead of searching through all files for the names to be changed.
2. All the info on an entry is connected over years and localities so that comparisons over years were quite easy to do.

With the development of Genovix, building on what AGROBASE has achieved, Agronomix once again kept their clients’ needs in mind while also looking to the future of agronomy advancements. While Genovix has a steep initial learning curve, the program's methodology makes perfect sense and workflow is quick and easy, thus giving us, the user's, the ability to do a lot of work effectively in the shortest possible time. Since moving the company, that I work for, over to Genovix I have completed work quicker and more effectively than before.

The learning curve of Genovix is eased by the creation of tutorials on every aspect of the software. These tutorials lead the user through the whole procedure of what he or she wants to do or know.
What I enjoy most about Agronomix Software is that they are open to communication with their customers. Any complaint, error reporting or suggestions receive immediate response from them, whether it is from their customer care desk, programmers or Dieter himself -- you will receive a reply!!

I can personally vouch for that as I have made a few suggestions and error reports myself which were incorporated or rectified as soon as their schedule allowed it.

I would strongly advise anybody looking to buy software for their research programs to take a closer look at Genovix as it is still growing and developing with the input from its users and the future views of the company itself.

I’ve been using Genovix for a few seasons and it has become an indispensable tool in my peanut breeding effort. Each year I’ve learned new functions within the program that improve the efficiency of my record keeping and data analyses. I appreciate the intuitive controls and tools that are clearly designed by plant breeders for plant breeders. It has been very easy to generate crosses, set up naming schemes for nursery selections, import field data, generate field books, design and map yield and nursery trials, then analyze the data all in one place.

My colleagues and I have been using Agrobase and more recently Genovix for the past 15 years to optimise our plant breeding in a range of botanical extracts in Tasmania, Australia. I am always impressed with the speedy response from Agronomix support staff.