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RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

A Workshop on Establishing a Rice Resource Center in the United States

The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland 20850 (C.R.B.); and University of California, Davis, California 95616 (V.S.)

The recent emergence of rice (Oryza sativa) as a model system for plant biology is primarily due to the availability of the rice genome sequence, but also the development of large-scale biological resources such as Expressed Sequence Tags, full-length cDNAs, microarrays, and mutant collections including insertion lines. An important component of the utility of an organism as a model species is the availability of genetic and molecular resources to all biologists. For example, a critical component of the success of Arabidopsis as a model organism was the rapid, inex-pensive, and open access of resources such as clones, and mutants through two public stock centers, the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center at Ohio State University and the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Center. Thus, the establishment of public resource centers will be essential if rice is to be utilized as a model by a substantial number of researchers.

To further develop the support and foundation for a United States Rice Resource Center, the National Science Foundation awarded funds to C. Robin Buell and Venkatesan Sundaresan (DBI-0309050) to host a workshop to discuss the merits and mission of a U.S. Rice Resource Center. In January 2003, a group of researchers from institutions in the United States as well as from several international institutions met in San Diego immediately preceding the Plant and Animal Genome Conference. At this workshop, the importance of a dedicated resource center in the United States for rice was discussed, along with the logistics of establishing such a center. There were two outcomes from this workshop. First, a report of the workshop has been published and is available on multiple web sites (http://www.gramene.org/; http://www.agron.missouri.edu/whatsnew.html; and http://www.ars-grin.gov/ars/PacWest/Aberdeen/interestimage.htm). Second, a Working Group has been formed with a mission to continue with the goals of the workshop with an emphasis on resolving additional logistical and organizational issues involved in establishing a U.S. Rice Resource Center. We encourage all interested persons to read the report and provide comments to us (rbuell{at}tigr.org; sundar{at}ucdavis.edu) that could be incorporated into the future efforts on creating a U.S. Rice Resource Center.

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www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.024984.

^* Corresponding author; e-mail rbuell{at}tigr.org; fax 301-838-0208. Corresponding author; e-mail sundar{at}ucdavis.edu; fax 530-752-5410.

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