Development of a Digital Sunflower Germplasm Catalog for the Query Based Retrieval of the Trait Specific Germplasm

For the benefit of Indian breeders, a comprehensive germplasm catalog of 3126 accessions based on nine seed yield and yield-related traits of sunflower in collaboration with UAS Bangalore, ORS, Latur, and ICAR-NBPGR, New Delhi, India, has been published in 2018, which includes information, on the availability of sunflower accessions conserved and maintained at ICAR-Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research (ICAR-IIOR), Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Searching for trait-specific germplasm accessions would be difficult in the voluminous germplasm catalog as it contains information on 3126 large numbers of accessions. To ease this difficulty, we have developed a searchable query-based Sunflower Germplasm Catalog to facilitate easy and rapid retrieval of information on germplasm accessions in the form of Digital Sunflower Germplasm Catalog (DSGC), which can be accessed by remote users/researchers who do not have access to the physical form of the catalog. The query-based information system is based on Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET). This system generates the information by giving the required query, including more than one character, i.e., a combination of characters.