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NASC Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre
arabidopsis.info Germplasm Customers and Donors
Sarah Bentham, David J Craigon, Louise
Daugherty, Graeme Gill, Victoria Haslam, Janet
Higgins, Emma Humphreys, Nick James, Joan
Jotham, John Okyere, Beatrice Schildknecht,
Guo-an Sun, Vijaya Tatituri, Mo Topham, Sean
May Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre, Plant
Science Division, University of Nottingham,
Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough LE12 5RD,
UK

• The Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre began in
  Spring 1991 as the natural successor to the
  German AIS (Arabidopsis Information Service).
• Our first major international customer was the
  ABRC (Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center) in
  the US with whom we exchanged the whole
  collection of 200 lines as part of 1200 seed
  stocks sent in our first year. The ABRC then
  opened for business in September 1991.
• Since 1991, NASC and ABRC have co-operatively
  served the world Arabidopsis community as sister
  organisations.
• NASC services European and worldwide Arabidopsis
  communities. Users of the Stock centres are
  affiliated according to where they are based as a
  result of an agreement with our sister
  organisation, ABRC in the US such that they
  service the Americas. Between us we then provide
  coverage for the rest of the world according to
  user-choice.
• Most of our donors are from the UK and the US
  although we do have a large number of donations
  from a variety of other nationalities as
  displayed on the chart below.
• If you have seed to donate please contact either
  of the Stock Centres or use our web pages. NASC
  can be contacted directly through
  arabidopsis_at_arabidopsis.info

European Groups
SEEDS Donated to NASC
A sample of the original donation of seeds is
dried to 5-7 moisture content and stored at
-20C and stored as archival stock
Large donations in sufficient quantity can be
released immediately
From donation to distribution
Stocks are sorted, barcoded and transferred to
our custom built low temperature and low humidity
storage room
Low quantity stocks are bulked (or re-bulked)
under conditions of maximal separation from all
other lines for quality control purposes
A sample is frozen for the archives
50 of each seed bulk is shared with ABRC in Ohio
for American users
We correlate orders with seed stocks process any
Material Transfer Agreements triple pack the
seeds for GMO security against accidental release
and then finally send the seeds to our users
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