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Abstracts

At present there is no modern object-oriented software for processing genetic-breeding data, optimizing and promoting the process of quantitative estimation of a new gene pool for productivity parameters with due account of environmental factors (the productivity level depending on soil-climatic factors, resistance to main biotic and abiotic stresses, minimization of growing intensification procedures). The available statistic packages, for example, SYSTAT, STATGRAPH or STATISTICA are aimed at processing of pooled data and therefore do not include a block of geneticostatistic analysis taking into account specificity of breeder’s demands.

The Institute of Genetics and Cytology at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is a leading institution in the Republic in the field of mathematical genetics and simulation of breeding process. Applied computer programs for geneticostatistic analyses of experimental data and mathematical simulation are being developed at the Institute for more than 30 years. The appearance of personal computers at the end of 1980 made it possible to raise a problem of integrating the stored programs into a single package corresponding to the modern level of demands for comfort and easiness of its application. By 1995 a package of applied programs for personal computers RISHON for different kinds of biometric analysis (elementary statistic, correlation, variance, multivariate, genetic) was developed for operating system MS DOS. On contrast to other program biometric products of that period, such as DAVP-PC (Germany), BIOSTAT (Moldavia), the package RISHON is oriented to demands of geneticists and breeders, in the first place, of plant breeders.

Orientation to genetics of agricultural plants allowed introduction of the package into practice of educational and research processes at the biological faculty of Gomel State University and at some chairs of Belarusan State Agricultural Academy. The package was also sent to the Experimental Station for Poulrty Farming at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and to the Institute of Genetics and Physiology of Cotton at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

However, over the past 10 years the design of the package RISHON oriented to MS DOS became morally out-of-date. A necessity for modernization arose. In the early twenties we made an attempt to develop a complex program of theoreticoinformation analysis of genetic processes in agricultural plants taking into account the influence of environmental factors using MS Excel formalities. With due account of this experience, modernization of the package by equipping it with modern user interface on MS Windows basis seems promising. This will allow users to realize a system approach in modern, convenient and usual environment. The approach makes it possible to carry out the entire complex of required computations, in particular, to perform geneticostatistic computer data processing; to assess quantitatively the outlook of some or other genotypes for application in the breeding process; to plan optimum crop rotation; to compute the most economic application of fertilizers and agents of chemical plant protection, etc. In this case the package will be required for educational, research and breeding institutions in Belarus and CIS countries and will be a good example of using information technologies for optimization and promotion of the breeding process.

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