Swiss Federal Research Station for Plant Production, Changins (RAC)
The RAC research station aims to improve the yield, quality
and health of plants while enhancing the ecology
and safeguarding the substainability of farming
systems. This effort implies the breeding of promising
species and new varieties, research into integrated
pest control as well as prevention and management
of disease. RAC collaborates with FAL in the areas
of field crops and plant breeding and with FAW
in arboriculture, horticulture and viticulture.
- Evaluation of Experiments
- Handheld computers
- Plant breeding
- Data Analysis
- Data Acquisation
Planning, Analysis and Documentation of Experiments
The applications support
the generation of long-term, multi-site field and laboratory
experiments and the collection of data in relationally organised
large databases. The applications make extensive use of the
full integration of advanced statistical analysis and reporting
tools.
The common WIDAS-based information
backbone lets the sister research stations, RAC and FAL, share
many years of experimental results collected at over 150 sites
in Switzerland.
Computer Aided Plant Breeding System
WIDAS provides flexible data management and analysis tools
that ideally support the manifold acitivities in plant breeding
research being performed at the RAC in collaboration with
the FAL.
Laboratory Data Acquistion Systems
The data collected by PC controlled data acquisition systems
are transferred to the central WIDAS database in client/server
mode.
Mobile Data Acquistion System
Hands-on Data Analysis by Scientists and Technicians
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With the clearly
structured WIDAS system and its integrated analytical tools (mathematical
statistics, graphics), scientific personnel can effictively handle the
experimental data and explore the significance of the results.
