Triticeae Toolbox (T3)

The Triticeae Toolbox (T3), formerly the Horduem Toolbox, was initially created to store trait and genotype data from small grains breeding programs to facilitate association mapping. Since its inception, T3 has evolved to become an integral component of breeding programs providing more than a data repository. T3 facilitates data sharing among researchers providing both data integrity and the ability to select data sets using a wide range of criteria for a variety of purposes. In addition, there are a growing number of data visualization (trait distributions, PCA plots, haplotypes, and pedigrees) and analysis tools (association mapping, genomic prediction, blast searches, and selection indices) that can be run directly from the database interface making exploratory analysis fast and simple. Together these tools and the growing database enable collaborative research projects by allowing multiple users to access and interact with data to accomplish multi-stage tasks. To illustrate this, we will show how T3 was used to initiate a new two-row breeding program at the University of Minnesota.