From bits to bites: Advancement of the Germinate platform to support prebreeding informatics for crop wild relatives

Raubach, S and Kilian, B and Dreher, K and Amri, A and Bassi, F M and Boukar, O and Cook, D and Cruickshank, A and Fatokun, C and El Haddad, N and Humphries, A and Jordan, D and Kehel, Z and Kumar, S and Labarosa, S J and Nguyen, L H and Mace, E and McCouch, S and McNally, K and Marshall, D F and Mikwa, E O and Milne, I and Odeny, D A and Plazas, M and Prohens, J and Rieseberg, L H and Schafleitner, R and Sharma, S and Stephen, G and Tin, H Q and Togola, A and Warschefsky, E and Werner, P and Shaw, P D (2020) From bits to bites: Advancement of the Germinate platform to support prebreeding informatics for crop wild relatives. Crop Science (TSI). pp. 1-29. ISSN 0011-183X

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Abstract

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 TrustCropWildRelatives 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.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Research Program : East & Southern Africa Research Program : Genetic Gains
CRP:	CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Plant Breeding, Germinate, Data resources
Subjects:	Others > Plant Breeding Others > Data & Analytics
Depositing User:	Mr Arun S
Date Deposited:	29 Aug 2020 16:38
Last Modified:	08 Feb 2021 05:13
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/11571
Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20248
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	UNSPECIFIED
Acknowledgement:	UNSPECIFIED
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