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From Bench to Bountiful Harvests Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC) Annual Report 2019/2020 Design and editing Geraint Parry MASC Secretary, GARNet, Cardiff University, UK [email protected] Cover images taken from Open Access publications Top left Image: https://elifesciences.org/articles/50747 Top right Image: https://elifesciences.org/articles/50253 Middle Image: https://elifesciences.org/articles/43284 Bottom Image: https://elifesciences.org/articles/47988 Further information can be found on the MASC website: www.Arabidopsisresearch.org The MASC report 2019/20 and previous reports are available online at: > MASC, The Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee: http://Arabidopsisresearch.org/index.php/publications/masc-reports > uNASC, The Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre: http://Arabidopsis.info/progreports.html > TAIR, The Arabidopsis Information Resource: http://www.Arabidopsis.org/portals/masc/masc_docs/masc_reports.jsp > GARNet http://garnetcommunity.org.uk/reports Published by the Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC) June 2020 MASC Inc is registered as a not-for-profit corporation in Canada under Corporatation Number 960778-1, subject to the regulations of the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act Acknowledgements MASC is grateful to all authors for their contribution to the MASC annual report 2019/2020. This report has been written by the members of the MASC community including the MASC directors, subcommittee chairs and co-chairs with support of subcommittee members, country representatives, project or resource directors and the wider Arabidopsis community. Throughout the report any references that are highlighted in red include an associated figure from that article. 2 MASC Annual Report 2019/2020 MASC Annual Report 2019/2020 3 MASC Country Representatives Israel Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein [email protected] The Multinational Arabidopsis Argentina Marcelo J. Yanovsky [email protected] Italy Maura Cardarelli [email protected] Steering Committee Australia Monika Murcha [email protected] Japan Masatomo Kobayashi [email protected] Proteomics Austria Minami Matsui [email protected] Annual Report 2019/2020 Joshua Heazlewood [email protected] Marie-Theres Hauser [email protected] Motoaki Seki [email protected] MASC President Systems and Synthetic Biology Belgium New Zealand Nicholas Provart Siobhan Brady [email protected] Moritz K. Nowack [email protected] Lynette Brownfield [email protected] [email protected] Brazil Norway MASC Treasurer MASC Project Resource Contacts Wagner Araújo Thorsten Hamann [email protected] Siobhan Brady [email protected] Adriano Nunes-Nesi [email protected] [email protected] ABRC Poland David Somers [email protected] Canada Robert Malinowski [email protected] MASC Secretary Emma Knee [email protected] Dario Bonetta Geraint Parry [email protected] Saudi Arabia [email protected] BAR Chile Yunhe Jiang [email protected] Nicholas Provart [email protected] María Francisca Blanco [email protected] MASC Directors Singapore Global Plant Council China Eunyoung Chae [email protected] Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez [email protected] Isbael Mendoza [email protected] Yuling Jiao Elizabeth Haswell [email protected] [email protected] South Korea Masatomo Kobayashi [email protected] Gramene Czech Republic Inhwan Hwang [email protected] Sean May [email protected] Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz [email protected] Blake Meyers [email protected] Viktor Žárský [email protected] Barry Pogson [email protected] IAIC Spain Denmark Xuelu Wang [email protected] Joanna D. Friesner [email protected] José Luis Micol [email protected] Michael Wrzaczek Michael Palmgren [email protected] [email protected] Blake Meyers [email protected] Sweden Estonia NASC Maria E. Eriksson [email protected] Hanna Hõrak [email protected] MASC Subcommittee Contacts Sean May [email protected] Liina Jakobson [email protected] Switzerland Bioinformatics Phenotyping Resources Kentaro K. Shimizu [email protected] Finland Nicholas Provart [email protected] Roland Pieruschka [email protected] Michael Wrzaczek [email protected] Taiwan Clone-based ORFeomics RIKEN Cheng-Hsun Ho [email protected] France Joe Ecker [email protected] Masatomo Kobayashi [email protected] Motoaki Seki [email protected] Loic Lepiniec [email protected] Turkey TAIR Catherine Perrot- Baris Uzilday [email protected] Epigenetics and Epigenomes Leonore Reiser [email protected] Rechenmann [email protected] Robert Schmitz [email protected] United Kingdom Xuehua Zhong [email protected] Germany Geraint Parry [email protected] Klaus Harter [email protected] Metabolomics United States of America Wolfram Weckwerth [email protected] Greece Joanna D. Friesner [email protected] Takayuki Tohge [email protected] Stamatis Rigas [email protected] Natural Varation and Comparative Genomics India J. Chris Pires [email protected] Jitendra P. Khurana [email protected] Ya-Long Guo [email protected] Ramamurthy Srinivasan [email protected] Plant Immunity Ireland Shahid Mukhtar [email protected] Charles Spillane [email protected] 4 MASC Annual Report 2019/2020 MASC Annual Report 2019/2020 5 Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents 6 Estonia 66 Finland 67 Activities of MASC 8 France 68 Executive Summary and Analysis 11 Greece 71 India 72 Reports of the MASC Subcommittees 16 Ireland 74 Israel 76 Bioinformatics 16 Italy 78 Clone-Based Functional Genomics Resources (ORFeomics) 18 Japan 80 Epigenetics and Epigenomes 18 New Zealand 82 Metabolomics 21 Norway 84 Natural Varation and Comparative Genomics 23 Poland 85 Plant Immunity 24 Saudi Arabia 87 Proteomics 26 South Korea 88 Systems and Synthetic Biology 28 Spain 89 Sweden 91 Arabidopsis Community Projects and Resources 30 Switzerland 93 Resource and Stock Centers 30 Taiwan 95 Arabidopsis Informatics and Data Sharing Resources 32 Turkey 97 Plant Projects and Resources with Strong Participation of Arabidopsis Community 37 United Kingdom 99 United States 101 Analysis of Arabidopsis Publications 45 Members of the MASC Subcommittees 104 Country Reports 47 Argentina 48 Australia 49 Austria 51 Belgium 53 Brazil 55 Canada 57 Chile 58 China 60 Czech Republic 62 Denmark 65 6 MASC Annual Report 2019/2020 MASC Annual Report 2019/2020 7 Update on MASC Activities Update on MASC Activities Over the next few years the MASC directors will encourage Activities of MASC subcommittee members to take a greater role in the organisations of MASC web page: www.Arabidopsisresearch.org - Serving as executive secretary of MASC workshops at ICAR meetings or at - Collating, writing and editing of the annual MASC independent events. MASC Inc has now been incorporated as a not- progress report with input from MASC members for-profit in Canada for the past two years. This requires - Maintaining and updating the MASC web pages to One strength of the global non-paid positions for the President, Treasurer and inform the global research community about various Arabidopsis research community comes Secretary, the current incumbents are Nicholas Provart, opportunities, collaborations, large-scale activities and in the form of the genomic resources Siobhan Brady and Geraint Parry respectively. research progress and seed stocks that are available for - Organising the MASC annual meeting during ICAR use. Each of the major international In 2017 eight directors were elected for a range meetings stock centres (ABRC, NASC, RIKEN) of term lengths. These will ultimately be for four years report that the distribution of once the first round of rotations has ended. These directors MASC operates via three groups who receive Arabidopsis seed stocks remain strong. officially took up their positions at the MASC annual continuous input from the whole Arabidopsis and In addition this document includes meeting that took place at ICAR2018 in Turku, Finland. plant community: MASC subcommittees, Arabidopsis reports from the major international To ensure that only two directors rotate off the board the community projects and resources and MASC country phenotyping projects, the International initial term lengths will be less than 4 years. This is a list representatives. Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium, of the inaugural board of directors and the length of their Gramene and the Global Plant Council. terms: The MASC subcommittees, proposed in Finally the report includes submissions 2002, were established to help tracking the progress from TAIR and the BAR project, which - 2018-2020: Michael Wrzaczek (Finland), Barry Pogson and advances made by the international Arabidopsis now include extra activities that had (Australia) community. This report includes contributions from previously been run through Araport. - 2018-2021: Xuelu Wang (China), Elizabeth Haswell seven subcommittees: Bioinformatics, Epigenetics (United States of America) and Epigenomes, ORFeomics, Metabolomics, Natural Country reports provide the bulk of the MASC report and highlight - 2018-2022: Blake Meyers (United States of America), Variation and Comparative Genomics, Proteomics, Figure 1. Number of attendees (blue) and number of posters presented (red) at the the new resources and publications that