The Arabidopsis community has always been very open, so today researchers and funding bodies can look back on more than 20 years of strong international collaboration and data sharing. The efforts of the Arabidopsis community have always been guided by decadal plans, which alongside led to the establishment of many Arabidopsis community projects and resources:

• The Arabidopsis genome research project (1990-2001) led to the completion of the Arabidopsis genome. During this decade two out of three stock and resource centers ABRC (Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center, US) and NASC (Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Center, UK) were founded.
• The Multinational Coordinated Arabidopsis thaliana Functional Genomics Project (2002-2011) led to the functional annotation of most of the Arabidopsis thaliana genes. Alongside, The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) was founded in 2001 to meet the needs of the growing Arabidopsis research community.
• From Bench to Bountiful Harvests (2012-2021) aims to obtain in-depth knowledge of how the genome is translated into a continuum of processes, from the single molecule to cells and tissues, the whole plant, plant populations, and fields of plants, to be able to build a predictive model of an Arabidopsis plant. In order to provide a flexible platform to enable open sharing of the vast amount of data generated by today’s omics approaches, the International Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium (IAIC) founded the Arabidopsis Information Portal in 2013 (Araport).
• The 4th decadal roadmap (2024-present) is called “Translating the Computable Plant” and aims to leverage the knowledge generated from Arabidopsis research to help improve crops. See the roadmap here.

The directors of Arabidopsis community projects and resources have been contributing to the MASC reports for several years, by presenting their respective goals, progress and news. Since 2014, general plant projects and resources have also been included, reflecting the growing connections between researchers focusing on different plant species.

The most recent Project Reports can be found in the MASC annual report here. If you require individual project reports then please contact the MASC coordinator Geraint Parry.