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Although future developments in a rapidly emerging field can be difficult to predict, some projections and evaluations are helpful in planning for the development of community resources and other initiatives that may facilitate progress. To make these projections and evaluations, a group of scientists met at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, on January 13 and 14, 2000. The workshop, co-chaired by Joanne Chory and Joseph Ecker, included the following group of scientists: Steven Briggs, Michel Caboche, Gloria Coruzzi, Doug Cook, Jeff Dangl, Sarah Grant, Mary Lou Guerinot, Steven Henikoff, Rob Martienssen, Kiyotaka Okada, Natasha Raikhel, Chris Somerville, and Detlef Weigel. To give the report from this group the widest possible distribution, a summary is printed below. The complete text of this document and an accompanying report from a meeting held on November 23 and 24, 1998, at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (Stanford, CA) are posted on the The Arabidopsis Information Resource Web site (http://www.Arabidopsis.org). The Carnegie-Stanford workshop was co-chaired by Chris Somerville and Joe Ecker and included the following group of scientists: Roger Beachy, Charles Gasser, Steve Kay, Kenneth Keegstra, Rob Martienssen, Susan McCouch, Elliot Meyerowitz, Eric Ward, and Susan Wessler. The idea of “The 2010 Project” is a synthesis of the two workshops (Carnegie-Stanford and San Diego-Salk) and a result of the work of a group of people with diverse scientific backgrounds. The ultimate goal of The 2010 Project is to broaden the scope to consider how genomics could be applied to understand all plants. Since Arabidopsis is far ahead of all other plant systems, many initiatives are focused on Arabidopsis. However, an implicit goal is to begin asking how and what we need to do to bring other plants forward as efficiently as possible, taking advantage of the power of a model system. We invite the community of plant biologists at large to read both reports and to express your views and offer your suggestions; these will be posted on the The Arabidopsis Information Resource Web site. Your suggestions can also be sent via e-mail to the following address (project2010@aspp.org) and they will be posted on the Plant Physiology Web site at the American Society of Plant Physiologists (http://www.aspp.org). Additional community input will be sought at the Arabidopsis meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, in June 2000. We will take into consideration all comments and suggestions in preparing the final workshop report to be submitted to the National Science Foundation this summer. Your opinions are very important and we are looking forward to a discussion of the important issues raised by this report.
