Breedbase 2.0 - expanding the functionality for traditional breeding and transgenics
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Abstract
Breedbase ( is a comprehensive, web-based, open-source breeding management and analysis software for plant breeding that was introduced to address gaps with existing software for plant breeding data. Breedbase is continually improved and developed, with new features being added as required by the breeding community. Since its inception, the capabilities of Breedbase were improved to better serve the diverse data modeling needs of additional crops beyond our original ensemble of cassava, banana, yam, sweet potato, tomato, rice, and wheat. We describe here major updates that have been made in the past 4 years, including (1) improved handling of repetitive measurements; (2) a redesigned experimental treatments interface; (3) a more fine-grained user permission system; (4) improved trial quality control workflows; (5) intercropping support; (6) the addition of a decision meeting feature that helps decision makers make the best selection with the available data; (7) transgenics and tracking tools and finally, (8) an improved field layout tool which consolidates several trials in one field. These new features integrate seamlessly with the previous feature set of Breedbase - making it one of the most feature rich breeding management softwares available.
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BibTeX
@misc{karaikal2026breedbase,
title = {{Breedbase 2.0 - expanding the functionality for traditional breeding and transgenics}},
author = {S. K. Karaikal and R. Preble and D. J. Waring and C. C. Simoes and I. Y. Tecle and N. Menda and T. Tantikanjana and J. Zhang and K. Eaton and K. Corak and C. Birkett and A. Krill Brown and M. Feldmann and C. Lamm and M. Thieme and P. Peteti and H. Manching and A. Powell and A. M. Hulse-Kemp and J.-L. Jannink and L. A. Mueller},
howpublished = {bioRxiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.64898/2026.09.28.755108},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.28.755108v1},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Breedbase 2.0 - expanding the functionality for traditional breeding and transgenics
AU - S. K. Karaikal
AU - R. Preble
AU - D. J. Waring
AU - C. C. Simoes
AU - I. Y. Tecle
AU - N. Menda
AU - T. Tantikanjana
AU - J. Zhang
AU - K. Eaton
AU - K. Corak
AU - C. Birkett
AU - A. Krill Brown
AU - M. Feldmann
AU - C. Lamm
AU - M. Thieme
AU - P. Peteti
AU - H. Manching
AU - A. Powell
AU - A. M. Hulse-Kemp
AU - J.-L. Jannink
AU - L. A. Mueller
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/28
PB - bioRxiv
DO - 10.64898/2026.09.28.755108
UR - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.28.755108v1
AB - Breedbase ( is a comprehensive, web-based, open-source breeding management and analysis software for plant breeding that was introduced to address gaps with existing software for plant breeding data. Breedbase is continually improved and developed, with new features being added as required by the breeding community. Since its inception, the capabilities of Breedbase were improved to better serve the diverse data modeling needs of additional crops beyond our original ensemble of cassava, banana, yam, sweet potato, tomato, rice, and wheat. We describe here major updates that have been made in the past 4 years, including (1) improved handling of repetitive measurements; (2) a redesigned experimental treatments interface; (3) a more fine-grained user permission system; (4) improved trial quality control workflows; (5) intercropping support; (6) the addition of a decision meeting feature that helps decision makers make the best selection with the available data; (7) transgenics and tracking tools and finally, (8) an improved field layout tool which consolidates several trials in one field. These new features integrate seamlessly with the previous feature set of Breedbase - making it one of the most feature rich breeding management softwares available.
ER -