U.S. Rice Resource Stock Center

[Liya Ren]

U.S. Rice Resource Stock Center


Are you interested in rice genetic stocks and genomic resources? If so
please read on.
Rice is rapidly becoming established as the model or reference grass
plant for genomics research. Three meetings sponsored by NSF have
identified a need for a US Rice Resource center
[http://www.ars-grin.gov/ars/PacWest/Aberdeen/RiceWorkshopReportFeb182003.pdf 

; Buell and Sundaresan Plant Physiology 132: 1137] that would
provide access to public materials, including seeds, tissue culture, DNA
pools, and libraries as well as comprehensive bioinformatics support.
As a primary or secondary user of rice genetic materials we seek
information about your needs for rice information and materials. Please
take a few moments to respond to a small survey form. Please open the
website [  <http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/osa1/rice.survey.shtml>
http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/osa1/rice.survey.shtml ] and complete the
survey now, but not later than November 15. We will report the results
in a proposal to the National Science Foundation seeking support to
launch the US Rice Genomic Resources Center.


Thank you. Robin Buell for the
US Rice Resources Working Group

rbuell at tigr.org (Robin Buell)
jeleach at plantpath.ksu.edu(Jan Leach)
srm4 at cornell.edu (Susan McCouch)
coqualset at ucdavis.edu (Cal Qualset)
pcronald at ucdavis.edu (Pam Ronald)
jnrutger at spa.ars.usda.gov (Neil Rutger)
sundar at ucdavis.edu (V. Sundaresan)
rwing at ag.arizona.edu (Rod Wing)