CSBR: Living Stocks -- Transfer of Ownership of Two Large Legacy Collections to the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center

拟南芥生物资源中心（ABRC）自1991年以来一直为植物研究界提供服务，收集，保存，扩增和分发拟南芥（Arabidopsis thaliana）和相关物种的种子和DNA资源。这些包括不同的DNA文库，全长cDNA集合，插入突变种子种群，代表全球自然变异的种子集合，以及基因组编辑资源。ABRC的长期目标是：1）通过收购新资源继续扩大和扩大收藏，2）根据社区的需求存储，放大和分发新类型的资源，3）提高运营效率，以持续的低股价提供更高质量的服务，4）免费提供精选股票信息，5）继续制作、收集和分发教学和教育推广包，以促进地方和国家的综合植物生物学教育。该奖项将促进两个大型遗产种子收藏品的所有权转让，这些种子收藏品是通过以前的NSF资助的研究产生的。该中心将策划，扩大和分发新的种子股票收藏已捐赠的两个退休或重新定向拟南芥研究人员，博士大卫Meinke和博士罗伯特去年。除了保护、管理和扩大大约6 500个股票的实物收藏外，这些遗留收藏的信息（大约20 000个记录）将被纳入现有的ABRC数据库基础设施。这些收藏品比通常接受的库存更大，更复杂，更难以管理和维护，本项目将支持将其及时纳入更大的ABRC收藏。最后和Meinke遗产收藏的增加也为ABRC提供了一个机会，通过为K-16学生，教育工作者和公众创造新的教育资源和独特的实践经验来突出这些收购。这将包括开发两个新的“绿化课堂"教育模块，其中包括传统收藏品，以及一个由“公民科学家”参与的公共实验室实践体验该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

The Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) has been serving the plant research community since 1991 by collecting, preserving, amplifying and distributing seed and DNA resources of Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) and related species. These include diverse DNA libraries, full-length cDNA collections, insertion mutant seed populations, seed collections representing global natural variation, as well as genome editing resources. The ABRC's long-term goals are: 1) to continue to enlarge and expand the collection though acquisition of new resources, 2) to store, amplify and distribute new types of resources based on the needs of the community, 3) to increase the efficiency of the operation, to provide higher quality service with a continued low stock price, 4) to provide free access to curated stock information, and 5) to continue to generate, collect and distribute teaching and education outreach kits, to facilitate an integrated plant biology education both locally and nationally.This award will facilitate the transfer of ownership of two large legacy seed collections, generated through previous NSF funded research. The Center will curate, amplify and distribute novel seed stock collections that have been donated by two retiring or re-orienting Arabidopsis researchers, Dr. David Meinke and Dr. Robert Last. The information from these legacy collections (about 20,000 records) will be integrated within the existing ABRC database infrastructure, in addition to securing, curating and amplifying the physical collections for approximately 6,500 stocks. These collections are larger and more complex to curate and maintain than the stocks normally accepted and this project will support their timely inclusion into the larger ABRC collection. The addition of the Last and Meinke legacy collections also presents an opportunity for the ABRC to highlight these acquisitions through the creation of new education resources and unique, hands-on experiences for K-16 students, educators and the general public. This will include the development of two new Greening the Classroom education modules that include stocks from the legacy collections, and a public hands-on laboratory experience involving "citizen scientists" who will assist in the identification of defective seed from the Last collection.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.