Plant Breeding Software

The Core or “Agronomic” System organizes all research data relationally and provides the functions and features for conducting agronomic, or plant research trials. This is the “core” of AGROBASE Generation II, and all the other optional modules may be licensed according to the requirements of the user’s research program.

Data Management

• Stand-alone PC license or multi-user license for a central server with controlled and secure user access.

• Experiment design and management for many complete block, factorial, incomplete block and non-replicated designs.

• Analyze balanced and orthogonal designs, lattice designs, and non-replicated or strip trials.

• Means and summary statistics stored in the SQL Server database. Generate reports with means, ranks, percent of checks, and more.

• Field planting plans, sowing  order lists.

• Efficient data import and export for Microsoft Excel®, ASCII text and other file types.

• Define and manage traits for each database, access data immediately in a spreadsheet-like interface.

• Comprehensive support for all stages of variety testing, organizing and managing hybrids and varieties.

• Full support for perennial (forage, tree) experiments, sub-sampling.

• Labels, reports, barcodes.

• Analysis of covariance, regression, correlation, descriptive statistics, and other biometrical analyses.

• And much more ... please contact us for more information.

This module supports the randomization and analysis of more advanced experimental designs, spatial analyses of yield trials, multivariate analyses, and other advanced statistical analyses.

• Randomization and analysis for more complex experimental designs.

• Spatial analysis of variety trials.

• Generalized linear models (GLM) analyses.

• Randomization and analysis of genetic experiments.

• Multivariate, non-parametric analyses.

• Much more … please contact us.

Generation II can store more than numeric, date, and character data. With this module, you can display digital images throughout Generation II.

• Display images with varieties and genotypes, and their data.

• Display images for traits, such as different stages or types of disease reactions or insects, different scores for growth stages, and more.

• Display images for an experiment at each location or environment to help remember the experiment’s growing conditions.

• Design and view reports with data and images.

• And much more … please contact us for more information.

The Plant Breeding module covers the needs of annual field and vegetable crops, perennial crops, flower and horticultural crops, and more. There are many tools for customization since cross designations, population advances, naming designations and more can be quite specific to crops and even among breeders working with the same crop.

The main features are:

• Nursery design and management, with many mating layouts for crossing and hybrid development.

• Support for breeding methods in many crops – self-pollinating, cross-pollinating, clonal, polycrossing and synthetics, hybrid development, doubled-haploid, cms systems.

• Development of segregating populations from F1 to Fn, and /or clonal stages.

• Germplasm management system.

• Customization for pedigree nomenclature and genotype naming.

• Cross prediction, gca and sca estimation.

• Response to selection tools, data linkage across generations, dendograms.

• And much more … please contact us for a more information.

The main features are:

• Single or multiple seed lots for any genotype, with all transactions maintained.

• Allocate seed from seed inventory for experiments or nurseries.

• Manage seed lot groups – create, sort, edit, delete, assign to locations.

• Manage seed lots – split, merge, create, delete, add or remove seed, assign to a seed lot group.

• View a complete history of transactions for all seed lots.

• Print reports and labels from seed inventory.

• And much more ... please contact us for more information.

This module provides tools and biometrical procedures for identifying the superior genotypes for selection and advance to the next stage of testing. The same tools and procedures assist in probably the most critical decision in a variety testing program – identifying the best variety or hybrid for release.

• Genotype x Environment (GXE) analyses of varietal data across locations or environments.

• AMMI (Additive Main effects and Multiplicative Interaction) analyses.

• Performance grids for varieties against checks for specific interaction patterns and adaptation.

• Head-to-Head analyses.

• Multiple trait selection indices.

• Multi-Year summaries.

• Index-based queries of genotypes from the SQL Server database

• And much more ... please contact us for more information.

AGROBASE Generation II® is a Microsoft Windows®-based software product running on Windows® 2000 Service Pack 2 or later, Windows 7 and Windows 8 and Windows 10 (users must have Admin access rights for installation, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the aforementioned operating systems are supported). Although AGROBASE Generation II may run on less, we recommend an Intel Core i3 or higher processor for optimum performance. RAM should be a minimum of 2GB or higher. The AGROBASE Generation II installation requires 200MB free disk space.

The user’s data files will require at least 25MB for a small research program, up to 1GB, or more, for a larger research or breeding program.

AGROBASE Generation II also runs on Windows Server®2008 or higher (both 32 or 64-bit versions) and peer-to-peer network systems running on Windows®2008, or later. We support the installation and use of AGROBASE Generation II over Citrix®, RDP and Terminal Server® connections. AGROBASE Generation II requires SQL Server 2008 or later, SQL Server Express (free from Microsoft) and SQL Server Standard Edition.

Your Personalized Demo Over The Internet

Would you like to have a personalized demonstration of AGROBASE Generation II on your own computer?
After viewing some of our tutorials maybe you have some specific questions which require a demonstration, maybe even with your own data?

Then you can request a personal demonstration of Generation II.

Here’s how our demonstrations over the internet work:

• Contact us at info@agronomix.com to arrange a compatible time given the realities of global time zones.


• We will send you a password to access a special web site that will connect your computer to ours.


• Once connected, you will see on your monitor what appears on ours.


• We then demonstrate Generation II to you, discussing with you any specific questions or needs you might have. You could have previously sent us some of your data files which we could then import into Generation II ‘live’ while you watch, and then proceed with further steps to show you how to effectively use the software for your own research program.


• You can also attach an LCD data projector to your computer and display the demonstration on a large screen for a group of colleagues in your organization. By using a speaker phone on your end, we can talk to you and your colleagues if you prefer. A number of organizations have done this, and found it very effective.

Making data collection easier allowing you to focus on developing the next royalty-paying variety.

A fully relational data collection application running on MS Windows® based tablets for use with AGROBASE Generation II®

Take your data with you ... wherever you go ... upload with only a few clicks

Overview

• Experiments and nurseries can be loaded onto the tablet, edited in the field or greenhouse and then seemlessly syncronized back to the AGROBASE Generation II database.

• MS.NET®-based application with MS SQL-Server Express® database.

• Store, edit and update hundreds of experiments and nurseries.

• Controlled application and database access using the same user accounts and passwords you are used to in AGROBASE Generation II(SQL).

• A high-level of user-customization and two data editing methods.

Data Access

• Touch, tap, drag and drop...with all the features of the operating system.

• Access the AGROBASE database directly to syncronize data with your tablet, without opening AGROBASE Generation II® (SQL)

• Quickly download experiments, nurseries and planting plan sites from AGROBASE databases.

• Store many experiments and nurseries in the tablet - limited only by the tablets' internal memory.

• Synchronize one, many or all experiments and nurseries with a single action.

Data Editing

• Edit data in spreadsheet view or individual plot view.

• Add traits to experiments and nurseries.

• Take digital photos of plots, an experiment or a nursery for upload to the database.

• Filter and sort data.

• Group data by any field for easier editing.

• Remembers the last-used experiment or nursery and loads it automatically the next time you start the application.

• Quickly customize the column displayed in the spreadsheet view by dragging columns out of the grid to hide them.

• Enhanced editing features embedding into the virtual keyboard.

• Information header displays important information for the current experiment or nursery.

• Navigation buttons to move to the previous plot, the next plot, the previous range and the next range.

• Customize the spreadsheed font and display colours to improve visibility in high light conditions.

Tablet Requirements

• Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 (Home, Standard, Enterprise, Professional, Ultimate, but NOT RTM)
• Minimum dual core Processor
• Minimum 1 GB hard disk drive
• Minimum 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)