CSBR: Living Stocks - Diversifying the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center

美国俄亥俄州立大学的拟南芥生物资源中心（ABRC）储存和分发拟南芥的种子、克隆和其他资源，这是一个无处不在的植物研究模型系统。在过去的25年里，ABRC推动了光合作用、农业改良、绿色技术和基础医学研究方面的前沿研究和发现。该奖项将支持ABRC的核心使命，即以低成本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拥有的资源多样化，进入生物能源和作物植物领域，使ABRC与植物生物界的未来需求保持一致。最后，该项目将使ABRC成为地方、国家和国际推广和教育的领导者，为激励和培养未来的植物科学家提供机会。这个项目有三个具体目标。首先是继续以可接受的成本为全球拟南芥社区提供尖端资源。这将通过提供新服务增加收入和通过提高效率减少费用来实现。ABRC还打算通过第二个目标来增加用户数量，这是通过多样化拟南芥来扩大ABRC收藏的效用。由于包括农作物在内的其他植物的数据都是基因组化的，因此它们将需要资源库。为此，ABRC的基础设施将比过去更广泛地支持植物生物学。第三个目标是领导当地和全球努力教育公众有关植物生物学的知识。ABRC还将与更广泛的植物科学界开展外展工作，通过创建互动活动提高公众对植物的认识，并为非专业人士提供更方便用户的在线信息来源。这些目标将维持ABRC的核心使命，同时战略性地使组织多样化，以满足全球科学家和教育工作者的未来需求。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行了评估，认为值得支持。

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.