Ecolog-ers, I'm starting a project on an annual plant (*Trichostema laxum <http://naturalmusing.blogspot.com/2015/01/beginning-research-floral-polymorphisms.html>*) that will require a great deal of crosses and examining various morphological and phenological traits of parents/offspring/field populations.
I've been doing the databasing in excel, but I am wondering whether anyone ( *Arabidopsis* and *Drosophila* folks, especially) has suggestions for a program that makes an easily-created and extractable database. I want to be able to extract specific data at a number of levels - population, family, individual, etc. I've used access (a little) and visual basic foxpro (a lot - and I don't like the exportation and manipulation of data). I tried a number of queries on google with little success, though I suspect something is out there. Thanks! Eric LoPresti
