POOL Database and Information Service July 27, 2006 Jitka Deyl Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada

What is POOL ?   Pedigree Of Oat Lines   relational database in Microsoft Access   database of pedigrees and background information of oat lines and cultivars   tool for breeders to find both the ancestry and descendants of oat lines   publicly accessible database with user friendly web interface

  entities in POOL are “virtual” (this is where it differs from a gene bank)   the most complete collection of oat pedigree data and nomenclature in the world

Where is POOL?  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6   A Curated Internet Database of Oat Pedigrees, N. Tinker and J. Deyl, Crop Sci. 45: 2269–2272

How?

From where?  cultivar registrations in North America, Australia, and Europe  breeders notes from different breeding programs  oat tests conducted in Americas  agricultural research & breeding institutions  university breeding programs BREEDING RESULTS :

JOURNALS & PERIODICALS INCLUDING :  Crop Science, USA  Agronomy Journal, USA  Canadian Journal of Plant Science  Genome, Canada  Oat Newsletter, Americas  Plant Varieties Journal, Australia  Theoretical and Applied Genetic (TAG), International Journal of Plant Breeding Research

 Nordic Gene Bank, Sweden  European Avena Database, Germany  National Genetic Resources Program (NGRP), USA  AAFC Plant Gene Resources (PGRC), Canada  BBSRC Small Grain Cereal Collections, UK  Plant Genetic Resources Documentation (EVIGEZ), Czech Republic  N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR), Russia GENEBANKS :

OTHER:  Material for an International Oat Register (B.R. Baum)  oat identification and classification publications (T.R. Stanton, F. A. Coffman)  proceedings from International Oat Conferences  “Quaker Oat Bible”  old (1916) and new publications related to oat breeding

Visit POOL

Oat Pedigree Database

POOL in numbers DATABASE STATISTICS (as of July 10, 2006) Names and synonyms 43,683 Unique entries 17,962 Sources of information642 Locations where the germplasm was created 752 Countries where the germplasm was created79 Oldest variety listed - mid 18th century Dutch Latest varieties listed - spring 2006 Canmore, Canoë, Gaspé, Jordan, Lachute, Lois, Navaro, Rozmar, Shadow, Sutton

WEB TRAFFIC ANALYSIS FOR 2006 JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneAVERAGE Total hits40,40845,42239,02450,80842,47642,11443,375 Total visits Total page views2,3013,4921,8081, ,825 Average visits per week Average visits per day Average pages viewed per day Average pages viewed per visit Total new visitors Total repeat visitors Average visits per visitor Visitor repeat rate [%] Average length of visit [minutes] Total megabytes transferred

WHAT’S THE FUTURE FOR POOL?  completion of genebanks data retrieval (cultivar coverage from many data sources, but comprehensive coverage based on alphabetical order from A to D from main world oat genebanks and Material for an International Oat Register)  financing since July 1, 2006

Acknowledgements Bruce Roskens Grant Morrison Art McElroy Nick Tinker Oat breeding team from Ottawa Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada All breeders and researchers willing to share their knowledge and their breeding results with the POOL