Designing an F1 Nursery and Exporting a Nursery Book To ensure that the correct crosses are made in the most efficient manner possible, proper management of the nursery is required, and this is facilitated by proper planning of the nursery. Completing the that follow will ensure accomplishing these needs. Designing an F1 Nursery Designing the appropriate nursery requires careful identification of objectives and selection criteria, and several sections and forms need to be completed as follow. Click on Manage Nurseries under Breeding Activities to launch the Nursery Manager (Fig. 11) Figure 11 Click a New Nursery’ (Fig. 11) to open the Create Nursery form (Fig. 12) ‘Start Basic Details Section (Fig. 12) Accept the default settings for date Fill in the required Details’ (marked with red and optional ‘Basic ‘*’), information (objective). Click the blue button at the top to save at any time ‘Save’ (recommended). Nursery Settings Tab (Fig. 12) Management Details: Leave blank Germplasm Descriptions: Leave crop specific default selections shown Selection: Number of plants selected (NPSEL) Single Advancement Method: Single plant selection - DSP Nursery Conditions: Leave blank Traits: Days_to_flowering Figure 12 Selecting and Adding information on the blue button on the Create Nursery window to the right ‘Add’ of (Fig. 12) to open the Traits’ window (Fig. 13). ‘Traits’ ‘Add Scroll to select the trait, then click on the Add’ button to add it (Fig. ‘+ 13). when finished (Fig. 13). ‘Close’
Designing an F1 Nursery and Exporting a Nursery Book To ensure that the correct crosses are made in the most efficient manner possible, proper management of the nursery is required, and this is facilitated by proper planning of the nursery. Completing the that follow will ensure accomplishing these needs. Designing an F1 Nursery Designing the appropriate nursery requires careful identification of objectives and selection criteria, and several sections and forms need to be completed as follow. Click on Manage Nurseries under Breeding Activities to launch the Nursery Manager (Fig. 11) Figure 11 Click ‘Start a New Nursery’ (Fig. 11) to open the Create Nursery form (Fig. 12) Basic Details Section (Fig. 12) Accept the default settings for date Fill in the required ‘Basic Details’ (marked with red ‘*’), and optional information (objective). Click the blue ‘Save’ button at the top to save at any time (recommended). Nursery Settings Tab (Fig. 12) Management Details: Leave blank Germplasm Descriptions: Leave crop specific default selections shown Selection: Number of plants selected (NPSEL) Single Advancement Method: Single plant selection - DSP Nursery Conditions: Leave blank Traits: Days_to_flowering Figure 12 Selecting and Adding information on the blue ‘Add’ button on the Create Nursery window to the right of ‘Traits’ (Fig. 12) to open the ‘Add Traits’ window (Fig. 13). Scroll to select the trait, then click on the ‘+ Add’ button to add it (Fig. 13). ‘Close’ when finished (Fig. 13).