Characterization Data of Cereal, Legumes and Technical Plants by the International Descriptors Lists

As in many fields, the possibilities of the information technologies have been widely used in the field of agriculture. Creation, ex-situ conservation, documentation and digitalization of the national plant collections are the great importance in an era when natural plant resources and traditional breeding materials are disappearing. In our republic special attention was paid to the creation of information systems, as well as a central database in the Law of the Azerbaijan (2011) about the conservation of genetic resources of cultivated plants and its efficient use. From 2004 has been created an information system on PGR at the Institute of Genetic Resources. This database consists of the information about national ex situ collection of plant genetic resources collected in the Azerbaijan environment in the format of passport descriptors and characterization data. The importance of plant characterization databases in agricultural research introduction in the field of agriculture, the accurate characterization of plant species is crucial for various research and development purposes. The passport descriptor data is the data such as taxonomy data, geographical, storage, recovery, exchange, introduction and reintroduction, organizations in the field of study, conservation and utilization of plant gene pool, farmers, information about breeders and donors, what about the characterization data, this is a data about morphological analyses, quality indicators, physiological analyzes and biochemical analyzes. This data is crucial for prioritizing and managing germplasm collections to ensure the conservation of genetic diversity. As a result of these studies, plant seed accessions were characterized using special descriptors lists based on international standards issued by International Biodiversity and ICARDA. In the Central Database, the characterization data is reflected in the quot%253BCharacterizationquot%253B tables created for each plant groups with characterization information. These tables are linked with other relevant tables that form the core of the database to obtain taxonomy data, accession number, biological status and other such important information about plant genetic resources. As a result, it was created a trait collection for 12 plant groups. Thus, the results of relevant researches (morphological analyses, quality indicators, physiological analyzes and biochemical analyzes results), carried out by the cereals and leguminous plants and the technical plant laboratories of the institute which accessions taken from Genbank are reflected in those databases. Plant breeders use such databases to identify desirable traits in plant varieties for breeding programs. By accessing information on the genetic traits of different varieties, breeders can make informed decisions on which plants to cross to develop new varieties with improved characteristics.