Information Technology as a tool to improve the utilisation and management of sugarcane germplasm at the MSIRI
| MSI05P4159 | |
| Mundil, D. Ramdoyal, K. Rivet, L. Ng See Cheong, F. M. Chintaram, E. | |
| Information Technology as a tool to improve the utilisation and management of sugarcane germplasm at the MSIRI | |
| Lalouette, J. A., Bheenick, K. J. and Nundalallee, C. (eds), Proceedings, Seventh Meeting of Agricultural Scientists, 4-6 May 2005, Boname Hall, MSIRI, Mauritius. (Draft) | |
| book chapter | |
| 2005 | |
| p. 111-118 | |
| Réduit: Food and Agricultural Research Council | |
| In: Book of Abstracts. Seventh Meeting of Agricultural Scientists, 4-6 May 2005, Boname Hall, MSIRI, Réduit, Mauritius. p 26 (Proceedings available at http://www.gov.mu/portal/sites/ncb/moa/farc/amas2005/pdf/MAS20051stDraft.pdf) | |
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| En | |
| The Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute (MSIRI) operates a breeding programme for the genetic improvement of sugar cane and maintains a broad collection of parent clones, which are used for hybridization. Each year, large populations of seedlings are raised and are subsequently screened through several stages of selection, spanning over 12 to 15 years, before a variety is released for cultivation. This programme generates an impressive amount of data, which needs to be processed for crossing and selection purposes and stored for future use. At the MSIRI, computerisation of breeding records started as early as the mid-1960s and data has been preserved in the form of electronic files and in databases. With the installation of the Local Area Network in the late 1990s, a computerised information management system, the PBMIS, has been developed to restructure and centralise all available data on a main server and provide access to information to several users simultaneously. The PBMIS comprises a relational database, the PBDB, and a menu-driven application programme which provides the necessary facilities for addressing queries or for recording new results. The PBDB database is organised in the form of tables grouped into 3 main components namely germplasm, hybridization and selection. The PBMIS has enabled information to be processed more efficiently and made readily available to breeders for rapid decision-making in the use and management of germplasm. This paper reviews the progress achieved in the use of information technology in the MSIRI sugar cane breeding programme and the development of the PBMIS with emphasis on the germplasm and hybridization components. | |
| sugarcane breeding germplasm information technology hybridization relational databases information systems | |
| Mauritius | |
| Computer and electronic systems | |
| 2005-05-03 | |
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| PB Biom |