Ans 1. Tomato Crop Pathogen Database(ToPDB) is a manually curetted open access database which comprises information concerned with different pathogens and diseases of tomato crop i.e. pathogen name, gene, taxonomy, disease cause, controls etc. Moreover, its rich user web interface provides user the freedom to access pathogen from its ToPDb pathogen ID, NCBI Taxonomy ID, disease from its ToPDb ID, NCBI gene ID, that will allow scientists who wish to genetically alter Tomato with higher nutritional and yield quality, and also helpful for framers to get a greater understanding about tomato crop cultivation.

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Ans 2.Particular Tomato Crop Pathogen of our interest can be retrieved by selecting " Browse Pathogen" on the "Browse" tab, there are different tags i.e. Browse Pathogen by alphabetical order, Browse Pathogen by type and complete list of Pathogen, with the help of these options, anyone can retrive a particular pathogen of Tomato Crop details easily.

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Ans 3.Particular Tomato Crop Disease of our interest can be retrieved by selecting " Browse Disease" on the "Browse" tab, there are different tags i.e. Browse Disease by alphabetical order, Browse Disease by type and complete list of Disease, with the help of these options, anyone can retrive a particular disease of Tomato Crop details easily.

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Ans 4. The pathogen and disease pages can be retrieved from keywords by selecting specific Disease of Tomato Crop eg. "Bacterial canker" for diseases browser and pathogen eg. "Serratia" from pathogen browser with their keywords on keyword search browser.

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Ans 5. All the data submission can be done through "Submission page".

NOTE: The database incorporates only already published data cited in pubmed or pubmed central.

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