LSCBR - The Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center at the Ohio State University

在Erich Grotewold的指导下，俄亥俄州立大学获得了一项国家科学基金会奖，以支持拟南芥生物资源中心（ABRC, http://abrc.osu.edu）。ABRC成立于1991年，其使命是收集、保存、繁殖和分发拟南芥及其相关物种的各种资源。在美国国家科学基金会的持续支持下，资源已经扩展到包括种子、DNA、蛋白质和细胞培养库存以及教育材料，目前收集了近100万份库存。ABRC服务于一个非常庞大和充满活力的社区，全世界有超过20,000名植物研究人员，他们的共同目标是了解开花植物的基本过程，并将这种理解应用于进一步的作物改良。该中心的活动对于支持社区对拟南芥基因组和基因的功能表征的集体努力至关重要。这反映在订单数量的增加上，每年几乎达到10万股。该中心继续扩大现有馆藏，并在社区需求的推动下确定对新库存的潜在兴趣。认识到ABRC在拟南芥和植物界的战略地位，该中心开始了几项教育活动（K-12和大学水平），以提高年轻一代对拟南芥和植物的欣赏，这些活动将在未来五年内继续扩大。

A National Science Foundation award has been made to The Ohio State University, under the direction of Erich Grotewold, to support the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC, http://abrc.osu.edu). The ABRC was established in 1991 with the mission to collect, preserve, propagate and distribute diverse resources of Arabidopsis thaliana and related species. With continuing support from the NSF, the resources have expanded to include seed, DNA, protein and cell culture stocks as well as educational materials, resulting in the current collection of almost one million stocks. The ABRC serves a very large and dynamic community of over 20,000 plant researchers worldwide with a common goal to understand the basic processes of flowering plants, as well as to apply this understanding to further crop improvement.The activities of the Center are essential to support collective efforts of the community to functionally characterize the Arabidopsis genome and genes. This is reflected in increasing number of orders, which have reached almost 100,000 stocks annually. The Center continues to expand the existing collections and to identify potential interest for new stocks, driven by community needs. Realizing the strategic position of the ABRC in the Arabidopsis and plant community, the Center started several educational activities (K-12 and College-level) to increase the appreciation for Arabidopsis and plants in general in the younger generations, activities that will be continued and expanded during the next five years.