Plant & Animal Genomes XI Conference

January 11-15, 2003
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Bioinformatics: Databases
             

GERMPLASM RESOURCES FOR FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC), University of Nottingham, Plant Sciences Division, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, LE12 5RD, UK

The Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC) began in 1991 with just 200 lines. Today, NASC, together with the ABRC, (Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center) each have over 375,000 lines, the majority of which are insertion mutation lines approaching saturation of the transcriptome. This poster outlines our seed collection and who we send our seeds to. Specifically: We currently distribute 30,000 tubes of seed a year. We sell more seeds in the UK than anywhere else, and together the UK and Germany make up nearly half of our total quantity. Demand for ecotypes and mapping lines have been quite constant, demand for activation tagged inserts is increasing, and other/promoter Enhancer Trap lines are decreasing. Most of our materials are knock-outs and other post genomic tools such as Tags, Gene Traps and Enhancer Traps. All of these seeds can be ordered through our online catalogue at http://arabidopsis.info.