Arabidopsis research in 2030: Translating the computable plant

Plants are essential for human survival. Over the past three decades, work with the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana has significantly advanced plant biology research. One key event was the sequencing of its genome 25 years ago, which fostered many subsequent research technologies and datasets. Arabidopsis has been instrumental in elucidating plant-specific aspects of biology, developing research tools, and translating findings to crop improvement. It not only serves as a model for understanding plant biology and but also biology in other fields, with discoveries in Arabidopsis also having led to applications in human health, including insights into immunity, protein degradation, and circadian rhythms. Arabidopsis research has also fostered the development of tools useful for the wider biological research community, such as optogenetic systems and auxin-based degrons. This 4th Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee Roadmap outlines future directions, with emphasis on computational approaches, research support, translation to crops, conference accessibility, coordinated research efforts, climate change mitigation, sustainable production, and fundamental research. Arabidopsis will remain a nexus for discovery, innovation, and application, driving advances in both plant and human biology to the year 2030, and beyond.

Instituto de Biotecnología

Fil: Brady, Siobhan. University of California Davis. Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Estados Unidos

Fil: Auge, Gabriela. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABIMO); Argentina

Fil: Auge, Gabriela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABIMO); Argentina

Fil: Ayalew, Mentewab. Spelman College; Estados Unidos

Fil: Balasubramanian, Sureshkumar. Monash University. School of Biological Sciences; Australia

Fil: Hamann, Thorsten. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Faculty of Natural Sciences. Department of Biology; Noruega

Fil: Inze, Dirk. University of Gent Center for Plant Systems Biology; Bélgica

Fil: Saito, Kazuki. RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science; Japón

Fil: Brychkova, Galina. University of Galway. Ryan Institute. School of Biological & Chemical Sciences; Irlanda

Fil: Berardini, Tanya Z. Phoenix Bioinformatics. The Arabidopsis Information Resource; Estados Unidos

Fil: Friesner, Joanna. North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee; Estados Unidos

Fil: Ho, Cheng-Hsun. Academia Sinica. Agricultural Biotechnology Research Centre; Taiwan

Fil: Hauser, Marie-Theres. BOKU University; Austria

Fil: Kobayashi, Masatomo. RIKEN BioResource Research Centre; Japón

Fil: Lepiniec, Loic. Institut National de Recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE). Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences; Francia

Fil: Lepiniec, Loic. Universite Paris-Saclay. Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences; Francia

Fil: Lepiniec, Loic. AgroParisTech. Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences; Francia

Fil: Mahonen, Ari Pekka. University of Helsinki. Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences; Finlandia

Fil: Mutwil, Marek. Nanyang Technological University; Singapur

Fil: May, Sean. University of Nottingham; Reino Unido

Fil: Parry, Geraint. Association of Applied Biologists; Reino Unido

Fil: Rigas, Stamatis. Agricultural University of Athens; Grecia

Fil: Stepanova, Anna N. North Carolina State University. Genetics and Genomics Academy. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology; Estados Unidos

Fil: Williams, Mary. American Society of Plant Biology; Estados Unidos

Fil: Provart, Nicholas J. University of Toronto. Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function. Department of Cell & Systems Biology; Canadá