Title

A database for coconut crop improvement

Authors

Velamoor Rajagopal^*, Ramaswamy Manimekalai, Krishnamurthy Devakumar, Rajesh, Anitha Karun, Vittal Niral, Murali Gopal, Shamina Aziz, Marimuthu Gunasekaran, Mundappurathe Ramesh Kumar and Arumugam Chandrasekar.

Affiliation

Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, (ICAR), Kudlu P.O, Kasaragod – 671124. Kerala, India.

E-mail*

bioinfcpcri@yahoo.co.uk; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Database

Date

received August 23, 2005; revised December 7, 2005; accepted December 8, 2005; published online December 8, 2005

Coconut crop improvement requires a number of biotechnology and bioinformatics tools. A database containing information on CG (coconut germplasm), CCI (coconut cultivar identification), CD (coconut disease), MIFSPC (microbial information systems in plantation crops) and VO (vegetable oils) is described. The database was developed using MySQL and PostgreSQL running in Linux operating system. The database interface is developed in PHP, HTML and JAVA.

Availability

http://www.bioinfcpcri.org

Keywords

coconut; crop improvement; database; oils; germplasm; plant disease; cultivar

Citation

Rajagopal et al., Bioinformation 1(2): 75-77, (2005)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.