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 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 and complete the survey now, but not later than November 15, 2003. 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@tigr.org (Robin Buell)
jeleach@plantpath.ksu.edu(Jan Leach)
srm4@cornell.edu (Susan McCouch)
coqualset@ucdavis.edu (Cal Qualset)
pcronald@ucdavis.edu (Pam Ronald)
jnrutger@spa.ars.usda.gov (Neil Rutger)
sundar@ucdavis.edu (V. Sundaresan)
rwing@ag.arizona.edu (Rod Wing)