Title

Authors

Jegadeesan Ramalingam^{1, *}, Loganathan Arul¹, Natarajan Sathishkumar¹, Dhandapani Vignesh¹, Katiannan Thiyagarajan², Ramasamy Samiyappan¹

Affiliation

¹Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore - 641 003, India; ²Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore - 641 003, India 

Email

jrjagadish@tnau.ac.in

91 422 6611353

Article Type

Database

Date

Received July 26, 2010; Accepted August 26, 2010; Published November 27, 2010
 

We developed, TNAURice: a database comprising of the rice varieties released from a public institution, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, India. Backed by MS-SQL, and ASP-Net at the front end, this database provide information on both quantitative and qualitative descriptors of the rice varities inclusive of their parental details. Enabled by an user friendly search utility, the database can be effectively searched by the varietal descriptors, and the entire contents are navigable as well. The database comes handy to the plant breeders involved in the varietal improvement programs to decide on the choice of parental lines. TNAURice is available for public access at http://www.btistnau.org/germdefault.aspx. 

Keywords

Rice varieties, qualitative, quantitative traits, database

Citation

Ramalingam et al. Bioinformation, 5(6): 264- 265, 2010

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.