HELP WITH SEARCHING

The plantrDNAdatabase has been organized so that you can make either a simple or an advanced search.

Simple Search
The simple search is <em>simple</em> and aimed to obtain easily fast results. You only have to type the name of the family, genus, species or even specific epithet of your interest in the Search Box and the results will automatically be displayed.

By default, the information that will appear in this type of search, besides chromosome number and ploidy level, is: number and position of 5S and 35S signals, presence of a linked 5S-35S arrangement and ID number of the source publication (Ref.) whose complete name will appear by moving your cursor over it. You can also obtain, by clicking the options below the search box, the authority of the plant name and the 2C genome size (in pg). The total number of records for your search is shown at the right top of the results. A given Simple Search can be later refined by clicking in the Advanced Search and selecting any of the available options.

NOTE With some of the type genera of families, those that have left their complete name for the name of the family, when typing their names, information on data of the full family will appear. This will only happen in these cases:
<em>Aster</em> (Asteraceae) <em>Brassica </em> (Brassicaceae) <em>Carica</em> (Caricaceae) <em> Cucurbita</em> (Cucurbitaceae) <em> Musa</em> (Musaceae) <em>Rosa</em> (Rosaceae) <em>Zamia</em> (Zamiaceae)

This can be avoided by clicking once the space bar after the name of the genus.

Advanced Search
The advanced search allows different options to refine your search. You can access from any tab of the webpage (excepting News) by clicking the word Advanced highlighted in bold. Then a query form will appear. In the first section of the query form you can select, by clicking in the corresponding box, all the <strong>output fields</strong> that you want in your search record. There are some options ticked by default (explained at the Simple Search).
<em>Therefore, if you want additional information, like life cycle or number of chromosomes with co-localized 5S and 35S signals, for example, then click in the appropriate boxes and these data will be shown if available: </em>

The second section allows you <strong>writing conditions</strong>, where it can be chosen that only results for a given family, genus or species are shown. Also, you can choose that your search only presents results for (a) given ploidy level(s) and chromosome number(s).

<em>For example, you can ask the database to give you rDNA data for diploid

to tetraploid Brassicaceae by entering Brassicaceae in the family box and entering 2 and 4 in the ploidy level boxes: </em>

NOTE: Numbers have to be written in ciphers. Finally, the third section enables to <strong>apply filters </strong> to your search either by land plant group, division, angiosperm group (of course only applicable to angiosperms) and life cycle (see figure below). There is a last option that permits to sort the results by family, genus, species, genome size, chromosome number or ploidy level; as for the previous filters, the appropriate choice has to be selected from the drop-down box under the option 'Sort by' at the bottom of the query form. The results of searches are automatically sorted by alphabetical order.

Once the different options are chosen, click the Search button at the right bottom of the query form. To perform subsequent advanced searches you can refresh the query form by clicking the Delete button at the right top of the form.

NOTES <em>FAMILY NOMENCLATURE</em> The standard/APG (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) family names have been followed in the webpage, even in the cases that the original publications used the traditional, non-standard family names. Also there are some recent phylogenetic changes that have been considered, which merge some families into others. Here you will find a correspondence:

APG Amaranthaceae Amaryllidaceae Apiaceae

TRADITIONAL / OUT-OF-DATE Chenopodiaceae Alliaceae Umbelliferae

Arecaceae Asparagaceae Asparagaceae Asteraceae Brassicaceae Clusiaceae Fabaceae Poaceae

Palmae Agavaceae / Hyacinthaceae Hyacinthaceae Compositae Cruciferae Guttiferae / Hypericaceae Leguminosae Gramineae

Xanthorrhoeaceae Asphodelaceae

<em>POSITION OF SIGNALS IN CHROMOSOMES</em> The positions of rDNA signals in chromosomes have been reduced to only three different options for the sake of clarity. These are: Centromeric or pericentromeric (if they are close to the centromeres) Interstitial (meaning positions near to the middle part of the chromatids) Telomeric or subtelomeric (if they are close to the telomeres)

<strong>Once

the Advanced Search is started, you cannot use the Simple Search unless you refresh your query form (by clicking the button Delete) or your session. </strong>