title: A database for coconut crop improvement.
abstract: Coconut crop improvement requires a number of biotechnology and bioinformatics tools. A database containing information on CG (coconut germplasm), CCI (coconut cultivar identification), CD (coconut disease), MIFSPC (microbial information systems in plantation crops) and VO (vegetable oils) is described. The database was developed using MySQL and PostgreSQL running in Linux operating system. The database interface is developed in PHP, HTML and JAVA.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://www.bioinfcpcri.org.
authors.affiliation: Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, (ICAR), Kudlu P.O, Kasaragod, Kerala, India. bioinfcpcri@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Velamoor
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authors.lastname: Rajagopal
authors.forename: Ramaswamy
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authors.lastname: Manimekalai
authors.forename: Krishnamurthy
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authors.lastname: Devakumar
authors.lastname: Rajesh
authors.forename: Anitha
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authors.lastname: Karun
authors.forename: Vittal
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authors.lastname: Niral
authors.forename: Murali
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authors.lastname: Gopal
authors.forename: Shamina
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authors.lastname: Aziz
authors.forename: Marimuthu
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authors.lastname: Gunasekaran
authors.forename: Mundappurathe Ramesh
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authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Arumugam
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authors.lastname: Chandrasekar