Introduction
The crop pedigree is an important piece of information for recorded the history of lineage relatedness and genetic evolution of breeding materials, revealed the evolutionary history of crop species genera and groups within genera, clarified kinship and genetic characteristics between varieties, provide an important reference and basis for subsequent genetic improvement and cross-breeding. In order to clarify the pedigree and genetic structure of crops, here we provide a crop pedigree identify and visualization analysis algorithm (PidTools) with an integrated development of a user-friendly online analysis platform (Pidtools-WS) and a highly customizable localized and efficiently executed toolkit program. The main functions include the following
- Pedigree Identify: On the basis of available pedigree information or indirectly obtained using modern testing techniques, it is assumed that the parental material of the existing varieties was used in the selection and breeding process.
- Pedigree Structural Analysis: Parsing and reproducing the distribution of genetic fragments across parents in existing varieties based on complete genealogical information.
- Pedigree analysis of derived lines: Based on the original parent and related derived line data, the genetic distribution of the parent in the derived line material is resolved and visualized.