PlantDB - a versatile database for managing plant research

Plant Methods
Vivien ExnerLars Hennig

Abstract

Research in plant science laboratories often involves usage of many different species, cultivars, ecotypes, mutants, alleles or transgenic lines. This creates a great challenge to keep track of the identity of experimental plants and stored samples or seeds. Here, we describe PlantDB - a Microsoft(R) Office Access database - with a user-friendly front-end for managing information relevant for experimental plants. PlantDB can hold information about plants of different species, cultivars or genetic composition. Introduction of a concise identifier system allows easy generation of pedigree trees. In addition, all information about any experimental plant - from growth conditions and dates over extracted samples such as RNA to files containing images of the plants - can be linked unequivocally. We have been using PlantDB for several years in our laboratory and found that it greatly facilitates access to relevant information.

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Citations

Dec 17, 2009·Nature Cell Biology·Honghong HuJulian I Schroeder
Jan 21, 2011·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Justyna MilcNicola Pecchioni
Apr 10, 2013·Journal of Experimental Botany·Alexandra SoltészAttila Vágújfalvi
Dec 17, 2009·Plant Methods·Raju Naik VankadavathRameshwar Sharma
Feb 26, 2010·Plant Methods·Karin I Köhl, Jürgen Gremmels
Jun 17, 2014·International Journal of Molecular Sciences·Ali MovahediQiang Zhuge
Jul 1, 2016·Genome Biology·Raúl CatenaBernd Bodenmiller
Aug 19, 2016·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Jianwei ZhangQifa Zhang
Oct 6, 2016·Journal of Experimental Botany·Hannah L OsbornSusanne von Caemmerer
Jan 22, 2017·The Plant Journal : for Cell and Molecular Biology·Amit RaiMami Yamazaki
Sep 25, 2018·Journal of Experimental Botany·Iva MozgovaWilhelm Gruissem
Dec 12, 2019·TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik·Davoud TorkamanehFrançois Belzile
Jul 28, 2020·Plant Methods·Yannick De OliveiraMathieu Thomas
Aug 5, 2017·Plant Methods·Carlos Antônio Ferreira de SousaManoel Teixeira Souza

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
transgenic
genotyping

Software Mentioned

MSHFlexgrid ActiveX
Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA )
ActiveX
MS Office Access
PlantDB
Office Access
Visual Basic for Applications

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