BrAPI-Core Concept Dictionary

Crop

For multi crop systems this is a useful call to list all the supported crops.

List

Generic lists of item IDs

Location

Physical locations

People

Maintaining information about people

Program

A BrAPI Program represents the high level organization or group who is responsible for conducting trials and studies. Things like Breeding Programs and Funded Projects are considered BrAPI Programs. A Program can contain multiple Trials. A Trial can contain multiple Studies.

Season

A season is made of 2 parts; the primary year and a term which defines a segment of the year. This could be a traditional season, like “Spring” or “Summer” or this could be a month, like “May” or “June” or this could be an arbitrary season name which is meaningful to the breeding program like “PlantingTime_3” or “Season E”.

Study

Study is defined as a phenotyping experiment conducted at a single geographic location. One Trial can have multiple studies conducted (e.g. multi location international trials). A “study” in BrAPI represents a “study” in MIAPPE (Minimal Information about a Plant Phenotyping Experiment).

Trial

Services related to trials. Trials comprise of multiple studies. A “trial” in BrAPI represents an “investigation” in MIAPPE (Minimal Information about a Plant Phenotyping Experiment).