MASC has its origin in the 1990s and was founded by a group of dedicated Arabidopsis researchers
Today 34 countries are involved in MASC actions and global progress is published in the annual MASC report and documented on this website!
MASC subcommittees coordinate collaborative large-scale projects initiated by MASC members
MASC oversees the organisation of 'The International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR)'Yunhe Jiang, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
October 9th 2020
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) conduct most of the Arabidopsis research in Saudi Arabia. KAUST established a center (Center for Desert Agriculture, CDA) to encourage the seven plant science groups working together. The CDA researchers use model plant Arabidopsis to study the basic biological questions and also translate these knowledges to crops, aim to resolve the significant challenges in the Kingdom and the world.
The research mainly focuses on plant-microbe interaction (Professor Heribert Hirt), root development and growth/defense trade-offs (Professor Ikram Blilou), genome editing (Professor Magdy Mahfouz) and carotenoid-related metabolic pathways (Professor Salim Al-Babili).
New Resources and Software tools available for Arabidopsis Researchers that have been initiated or funded in 2018/ early 2019.
MVApp, Multivariate analysis application for streamlined data analysis and curation
http://mvapp.kaust.edu.sa/MVApp/
Selected Publications
Abuauf, H., Haider, I., Jia, K.-P., Ablazov, A., Mi, J., Blilou, IHan B, Jiang Y, Cui G, et al., (2020). CATION-CHLORIDE CO-TRANSPORTER 1 (CCC1) mediates plant resistance against Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Physiology, pp.01279.2019.
Ali Z, Mahfouz MM, Mansoor S, (2020). CRISPR-TSKO: A Tool for Tissue-Specific Genome Editing in Plants. Trends in Plant Science 25, 123-6.
Eida AA, Alzubaidy HS, De Zélicourt A, et al., (2019). Phylogenetically diverse endophytic bacteria from desert plants induce transcriptional changes of tissue-specific ion transporters and salinity stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Science 280, 228-40.
Jarad M, Mariappan K, Almeida-Trapp M, et al., (2020). The Lamin-Like LITTLE NUCLEI 1 (LINC1) Regulates Pattern-Triggered Immunity and Jasmonic Acid Signaling. Frontiers in Plant Science 10.
Jia K-P, Dickinson AJ, Mi J, et al., (2019). Anchorene is a carotenoid-derived regulatory metabolite required for anchor root formation in Arabidopsis. Science Advances 5, eaaw6787.
Jiang Y, Han B, Zhang H, et al., (2019). MAP4K4 associates with BIK1 to regulate plant innate immunity. EMBO reports 20, e47965.
Julkowska MM, Saade S, Agarwal G, et al., (2019). MVApp—Multivariate Analysis Application for Streamlined Data Analysis and Curation. Plant Physiology 180, 1261-76.
Long Y, Stahl Y, Weidtkamp-Peters S, Blilou I, (2020) Visualizing Protein Associations in Living Arabidopsis Embryo. In: Bayer M, ed. Plant Embryogenesis: Methods and Protocols. New York, NY: Springer US, 167-88.
Major Funding Sources
• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.