Breeder-focused tools for Crop Improvement

DivSeek Canada Pilot Project

…accelerate plant breeding by leveraging the genetic diversity in the world’s live collections and seed banks

to create a unified, coordinated and cohesive information management platform.

Why

Growing populations, a changing climate
and increasing constraints on land, water and fertilizer

translate into increased risks to global food security
and pressure to dramatically expand agricultural productivity in Canada – and quickly.

This can’t happen, though, without accelerated plant breeding programs to develop high-yielding, climate-friendly and “earth-friendly” plant varieties.

Vision

Our platform…

Provides an expandable database
for Canadian crop information,

Offers a model for the DivSeek initiative globally.

Expected to galvanize the use of genomic information by plant breeders
to accelerate crop breeding in Canada

Either Host your data with us
or Create your own portal with our tools

Support focused on small to medium-sized crop communities
who have not previously had the financial resources or bioinformatics skill set
to exploit the genomic information available.

Portal

The first iteration of our portal is LIVE!

Currently houses

Germplasm passport, Phenotypic Traits + Experiments, Genetic Maps

for Lentil, Flax, Sunflower!

Come Check it Out!

Tools

Everything Open-Source

Modular for plug-and-play extension!

Collaborative first mentality

Check us out on GitHub

Extend

We used Docker so you can have
your OWN breeder-focused portal!

We like to think of docker as packaging our website framework and tools
into a present just for you!

Either use your own hosting solution of the Compute Canada OpenStack solution
and Follow our super simple, unwrapping instructions to auto-magically create your own customized portal!


Tripal Crop Docker

All our tools at your fingertips!

Customize it to exactly suit your needs!