The Breeder Toolbox, a Versatile Kit to Manage Phenotypes and Breeding Trials in Multiple Crops

The Solgenomics (SGN) platform has developed a broad range of solutions and tools to help the scientific community to manage the ever increasing amount of genomic and phenomic data.

In this perspective, the Breeder Toolbox was designed to answer community's needs in the daily management of plant breeding programs. This support includes both field and computer work aspects.

Solutions for germplasm (accessions and trait search, pedigree construction), trial design (field maps, crossings), phenotypic and genotyping data collection (fieldbook, barcodes) and genotyping are now available in multiple crops including Solanaceae (tomato, potato, pepper, eggplant) but also root and tuber crops such as cassava, sweet potato or yam.

To address different community needs, dedicated web portals (solgenomics.net, cassavabase.org, sweetpotatobase.org, yambase.org) include common tools (i.e. accession search) and specific features answering each crop breeding requirement (i.e. breeding cycles).

Altogether, the Breeder Toolbox is a versatile tool that efficiently share and retrieve data with and from other SGN analytical components such as the genomic selection module, SolGS.