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. 2009 Jun 5;50(7):1215–1231. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcp078

Table 4.

Gain-of-function type mutant resources and databases

Resource type Resource name Institution Accession or genotype Available from Nos. of lines Website for the resource Reference
Activation tagging Arabidopsis
Weigel T-DNA lines SALK Institute (USA) Columbia ABRC, NASC 22,600a http://arabidopsis.org/abrc/weigel.jsphttp://arabidopsis.info/CollectionInfo?id=59 Weigel et al. (2000)
http://arabidopsis.info/CollectionInfo?id=59
RIKEN activation tagging lines RIKEN (Japan) Columbia RIKEN BRC 32,650a http://activation.psc.database.riken.jp (RIKEN SciNeS) Nakazawa et al. (2003), Ichikawa et al. (2003)
Unknown Plant Research International (Netherlands) Wassilevskija, Landsberg Contact authors 8,300 n/ab Marsch-Martinez et al. (2002)
TAMARA University of Cologne (Germany) Columbia NASC 9,471a http://arabidopsis.info/CollectionInfo?id=71 Schneider et al. (2005)
Unknown NI Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS (Russia) Columbia Contact authors 156 n/a Pogorelko et al. (2008)
JIC activate lines John Innes Centre (UK) Landsberg ABRC, NASC 972a http://arabidopsis.info/CollectionInfo?id=29 n/a

Rice
RISD POSTECH (Korea) Dongjin, Hwayoung Contact authors 48,000 http://www.postech.ac.kr/life/pfg/risd Jeong et al. (2006)
TRIM Academia Sinica (Taiwan) Tainung 67 Contact authors 55,000 http://trim.sinica.edu.tw/ Hsing et al. (2007), Chern et al. (2007)

Soybean
GmGenesDB University of Missouri (USA) Bert, Thorne Contact authors 900 http://digbio.missouri.edu/gmgenedb/index.php Mathieu et al. (2009)

FOX hunting system (cDNA library/host plant)
Arabidopsis FOX lines RIKEN (Japan) Arabidopsis-Columbia/Arabidopsis-Columbia RIKEN BRC 15,000 http://nazunafox.psc.database.riken.jp (RIKEN SciNeS) Ichikawa et al. (2006)
Rice FOX Arabidopsis lines RIKEN, NIAS, RIBS Okayama (Japan) Rice-Nipponbare/Arabidopsis-Columbia RIKEN BRC 33,000 http://ricefox.psc.riken.jp/ Kondou et al. (2009)
FOX rice lines NIAS (Japan) Rice-Nipponbare/Rice-Nipponbare Contact authors 12,000 n/a (in preparation) Nakamura et al. (2007)

aNumbers of publicly available lines from the corresponding bioresources.

bn/a, not available.

ABRC, Arabidopsis Bioresource Centre; JIC, John Innes Centre; NIAS, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences; NASC, Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre; RIBS, Research Insititue of Biological Sciences; RIKEN BRC, RIKEN BioResource center; RISD, Rice T-DNA Insertion Sequence Database; POSTECH, Pohang University of Science and Technology; TAMARA, transposon element-mediated activation tagging mutagenesis; TRIM, Taiwan Rice Insertional Mutant; SciNeS, Life Science Networking System.