Easy Breed

The flexible software for your plant breeding requirements

Easy Breed is a user-friendly data management system for plant breeding. Developed in collaboration with breeders, the software provides a means of structuring your field trial data, phenotypic data, marker data, and pedigrees. With Easy Breed, you can carry out hybridization, plan and implement trials, integrate and analyze data, and select the best varieties. In this way, it enables you to create the perfect basis for successfully developing new varieties.

Your benefits

User-friendly interface: Short implementation time, with easy configuration and customization of workflows according to your exact requirements.
Quick installation: Easy Breed is ready to go after just a few clicks. Data from existing systems can be easily imported, saving you time.
Individual extensions: Easy Breed can be extended with practical functions as required and is also compatible with WINTERSTEIGER Easy Plant and Easy Harvest.
Flexible language selection: The plant breeding software is available in English and German, and can be customized to support many other languages.
Training and support: Webinars, free training sessions, and the concentrated know-how of WINTERSTEIGER and the Easy Breed community are at your disposal.
How does plant breeding work with Easy Breed?

How does plant breeding work with Easy Breed?

The plant breeding software can be used for all types of crops and supports you right from the beginning of the plant breeding process; hybridizations and cross-progeny can be created and managed effortlessly. Easy Breed helps to create randomized and non-randomized trial designs as well as to generate field books and work lists.

The following steps are carried out:

Check of normal distribution and variance homogeneity
Creation of a descriptive statistical overview
Outlier listing
Compilation of variance components, marginal differences, and results from ANOVA
Calculation of adjusted mean values

Other analysis features of Easy Breed include:

One-way and two-way ANOVA
Regression analyses and correlation determinations
Statistical overviews for any number of experiments, locations, and parameters
Determination of GCA and SCA values
AUDPC calculation, for example for resistance tests

A wide range of visualization functions are available for optimally presenting the analyzed data, with heat maps, boxplots, and scatter, line, and bar charts giving you a quick overview of the quality and trends revealed.

Plus: Easy Breed uses the open source software R, allowing interfaces to be developed that support individual analysis pipelines as well as visualization and reporting methods.

For whom is the plant breeding software the ideal solution?

The flexibility offered by Easy Breed is especially important in our era of digitalization and automation, and is equally valued by its different users.

Universities and non-university research institutions

The ability to store all research data centrally in a single system makes Easy Breed particularly attractive to universities and research institutions. In addition, the integration of users' own analysis and visualization functions is so easy that new functions can be tested quickly with the integrated data.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and private breeders

SMEs as well as private breeders appreciate Easy Breed's ability to collect all relevant information by using only one piece of software and to evaluate it via standardized workflows. Easy data consolidation spanning multiple years and locations makes the selection of breeding material simple and fast.

Large international companies

Large companies whose business involves plant breeding and crop protection or trialling stand to benefit from the flexibility of the plant breeding system in particular. Existing workflows can be integrated quickly and easily, so that the software can be adapted precisely to users' needs.

Easy Breed webinar: Get free information from WINTERSTEIGER online

We will show you how Easy Breed can be used to support your breeding process in our webinar. It explains all the steps – from planning and execution right through to the final evaluation of the field trials. Sound interesting?

References: What our customers like most about Easy Breed

The Easy Breed breeding software has been a success at Saatzucht Ackermann in Bavaria. The family-run company specializes in summer and winter barley, and in 2017 won a "Top 100" award as one of the leading innovators among German SMEs.
What Ackermann GmbH & Co. KG particularly appreciates about Easy Breed is the high data quality that is ensured throughout the entire breeding process, from hybridization to marketing. The results of the analyses serve as an important basis for decisions that influence the future success of the company.

The big advantage for us is that we now have all our data in one place. Previously, we used something different for every step in the process and were constantly switching between one tool and another. Easy Breed has replaced all these various programs and lists, and everything is clearly visualized in Easy Breed down to the level of individual fields.
Saatzucht Ackermann GmbH und Co. KG., Irlbach, Deutschland

Try now for free: Easy Breed training at no charge

Would you like to learn more about Easy Breed, try out its features, and see the benefits for yourself? Take advantage of our offer and discover the functions of our plant breeding software in two free training sessions within 30 days! You'll also have the opportunity to discuss your individual requirements with us.

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