CSBR: Living Stocks: Enhancing the Quality and Efficiency of the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center

拟南芥生物资源中心(ABRC)成立于1991年，其任务是收集、保存、繁殖和分配拟南芥及其近缘物种的各种资源。该中心一直在为利用拟南芥进行研究的科学界不断变化的需求提供服务，目前已发展到为全球27,000多名研究人员提供服务。近100万份库存包括种子、DNA、蛋白质和细胞培养库存，以及教育材料。ABRC每年分发超过200,000个样本，为参与了解植物模型基本过程的植物研究社区提供基本服务，并最终导致加速作物改良的应用。在接下来的三年里，该中心将：1)根据预测的需求，继续扩大和扩大资源集合，包括来自其他物种的抗体和DNA资源；2)采购、存储和分配由社区需求驱动的新型资源；3)继续提高业务的效率，从而在不增加预算的情况下提供更高质量的服务；4)继续与诺丁汉拟南芥库存中心(arabidopsis.info)和拟南芥信息门户网站(www.araport.org)发展伙伴关系，以便提供在线库存信息和订购；以及5)通过开发新的K-12实践方案和扩大现有K-12和大学一级教学活动的覆盖面，继续扩大ABRC作为教育和外联资源的作用。库存处理和维护的最新程序以及质量控制程序和统计数据可在网上找到(abrc.osu edu)。教育材料也可以在网上获得(abrCoutreach.osu edu)，包括关于教育工具包的详细信息。

The Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) was established in 1991 with the mission to collect, preserve, propagate and distribute diverse resources of Arabidopsis thaliana and related species. The Center has been serving the dynamically changing needs of the scientific community that uses Arabidopsis for research, and has grown to serve more than 27,000 investigators worldwide. The collection of almost one million stocks comprises seed, DNA, protein and cell culture stocks, as well as educational materials. With over 200,000 samples distributed annually, ABRC provides an essential service to the plant research community involved in understanding the basic processes in plant models, and ultimately leading to applications to accelerate crop improvement.In the next three years the Center will: 1) continue to enlarge and expand the collections of resources based on projected demand, including antibodies and DNA resources from other species; 2) procure, store and distribute novel types of resources as they are developed and driven by the needs of the community; 3) continue to increase the efficiency of the operation, thus providing higher quality of service without a budget increase; 4) continue developing partnerships with Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (arabidopsis.info) and the Arabidopsis Information Portal (www.araport.org) in order to provide online access to stock information and ordering; and 5) continue to expand the role of ABRC as a resource for education and outreach by developing new K-12 hands-on programs and by increasing the reach of the existing K-12 and college-level teaching activities. The updated procedures for stock handling and maintenance, along with the quality control protocols and statistics, can be found online (abrc.osu.edu). Education materials are also available online (abrcoutreach.osu.edu), including the detailed information about education kits.