Patent ID: 7250553

Claim:
A method for multigenerational plant trait analysis and associated data management comprising: a) generating a random insertion of an insertional mutagen in the genome of a T0 plant, and collecting T1 seed from said T0 plant, wherein said insertional mutagen is capable of a loss of function and a gain of function mutation; b) growing T1 plants from the seed collected in (a) under conditions to select transformed T1 plants, and assigning a T1 identification number to each transformed T1 plant selected; c) analyzing a transformed T1 plant grown in (b) for dominant mutant traits and recording in an electronic database at least one dominant mutant trait observed in the transformed T1 plant, wherein a database record of a dominant mutant trait observed in a transformed T1 plant is linked to the T1 identification number assigned to the T1 plant analyzed; d) collecting T2 seed from T1 plants analyzed in (c), and assigning a T2 identification number to said seed, wherein the T2 identification number is linked to the T1 identification number assigned to the T1 plant analyzed in (c); e) growing T2 plants from the T2 seed collected in (d); and f) analyzing a T2 plant grown in (e) for recessive mutant traits and recording in the database at least one recessive mutant trait observed in the analyzed T2 plant that was not present in its parent T1 plant, wherein a record is generated that associates the information of the analyzed T2 plant to any information recorded about its parent T1 plant.