CSBR: Living Stocks - Diversifying the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center

CSBR：活畜 - 拟南芥生物资源中心多样化

• 批准号: 1756439
• 负责人: David Somers
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756439&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Living; Stocks; Diversifying; Arabidopsis

The Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) at The Ohio State University stores and distributes seeds, clones and other resources of Arabidopsis thaliana, a ubiquitous model system for plant research. For the past 25 years, the ABRC has propelled cutting-edge research and discovery in photosynthesis, agricultural improvement, green technology, and basic medical research. This award will support the ABRC's core mission to inexpensively distribute DNA and seed resources to the plant biology community, and to support plant science education by providing seeds and teaching resources free-of-charge to K-12 teachers. This project will diversify the resources held by the ABRC into bioenergy and crop plants, aligning the ABRC with the future needs of the plant biology community. Lastly, this project positions the ABRC to be a leader in local, national and international outreach and education, providing opportunities to inspire and train future generations of plant scientists. There are three specific goals of this project. The first is to continue to provide cutting-edge resources to the global Arabidopsis community at an accessible cost. This will be accomplished by increasing revenue through new services offered and by decreasing expenses through improved efficiency. The ABRC also aims to increase the number of users through a second goal, which is to expand the utility of the ABRC collection by diversifying beyond Arabidopsis. As data on other plants, including crops, are genome-enabled, they will require resource repositories. To that end, the infrastructure of the ABRC will be leveraged to support plant biology more broadly than in the past. The third goal is to lead local and global efforts to educate the public about plant biology. The ABRC will also engage a broader plant science community in outreach efforts, increase awareness of plants among the general public by creating interactive activities and provide a more user-friendly online source of information for non-specialists. These aims will function to maintain the ABRC's core mission, while strategically diversifying the organization to meet the future needs of scientists and educators worldwide. Consult the ABRC website for further information (abrc.osu.edu).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

俄亥俄州立大学商店的拟南芥生物资源中心（ABRC），并分发了拟南芥的种子，克隆和其他资源，这是一种无处不在的植物研究模型系统。 在过去的25年中，ABRC在光合作用，农业改进，绿色技术和基本医学研究中推动了尖端研究和发现。 该奖项将支持ABRC的核心使命，以廉价地向植物生物学社区分发DNA和种子资源，并通过向K-12教师免费提供种子和教学资源来支持植物科学教育。 该项目将使ABRC持有的资源多样化为生物能源和作物植物，使ABRC与植物生物学社区的未来需求保持一致。 最后，该项目将ABRC定位为地方，国家和国际外展和教育的领导者，提供了激发和培训子孙后代植物科学家的机会。 该项目有三个具体目标。 首先是继续向全球拟南芥社区提供最先进的资源，以可访问的成本。 这将通过通过提供的新服务来增加收入并通过提高效率来减少支出来实现。 ABRC还旨在通过第二个目标来增加用户数量，即通过使拟南芥超越拟南芥来扩大ABRC集合的实用性。 由于其他植物（包括农作物）的数据是支持基因组的，因此它们将需要资源存储库。 为此，与过去相比，ABRC的基础设施将被利用以更广泛地支持植物生物学。 第三个目标是领导地方和全球努力，以教育公众有关植物生物学的知识。 ABRC还将通过创建互动活动并为非专业人士提供更具用户友好的在线信息来源来吸引更广泛的植物科学界，从而提高公众对植物的认识。 这些目标将发挥作用，以保持ABRC的核心使命，同时使组织多样化，以满足全球科学家和教育工作者的未来需求。 请咨询ABRC网站以获取更多信息（ABRC.osu.edu）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估。