National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi - 110012.
Enormous information has accumulated over the past few decades over germplasm of various crops and their wild relatives. Awareness and importance of computerisation of database information, loging, analysis and retrieval is increasing day by day at national, regional and global levels. Various steps in preparation of a catalogue vis-a-vis recording of data, and duplication, verification, sorting, analysis, querying and listing of data are discussed in this paper. Computer program based on dBASE III Plus software for identification of duplicates as well as sorting and analysis of data are also discussed.
