'Plant Breeding: Sustaining the Future' Abstracts of the XVIth EUCARPIA Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, 10-14 September 2001 A RELATIONAL SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR PLANT BREEDING D.K. MULITZE Agronomix Software Inc, 171 Waterloo St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3N 0S4

Relational database software offers significant advantages over non-relational or spreadsheet- based software for plant breeding. AGROBASE Generation II^TM, a comprehensive, fully relational software system for plant breeding permits immediate relational access to data by trials, varieties, traits, locations, or years with a research data explorer. Drag and drop from the data explorer expedites visual layout of planting plans for yield trials. Data for any variety may be viewed instantly, along with digital photos, even in comparison to her varieties. Automation is highly efficient, with all data for entire year automatically validated, calculations updated, and analysed upon a few mouse clicks.