Other Genetic Stock Centers

This was adapted from the 'Organisms and Strains' page compiled by David Jourdan

Eukaryotes

Plant

• Collections in the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS)
Information about the holdings and the different germplasm repositories that are a part of NPGS. NPGS is a cooperative effort by public (US Federal and State) and private organizations to preserve the genetic diversity of plants. The Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center is part of NPGS, as are some of the other plant genetic stock centers listed here.
• Genetic Stocks - Oryza (GSOR) Collection (NPGS, USA)
In August, 2003, the Genetic Stocks - Oryza (GSOR) Collection was established at the USDA-ARS Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, at Stuttgart, AR; to develop and maintain a collection of rice genetic seed stocks which are available to enhance the research of rice scientists. The GSOR program is responsible for storing, maintaining, documenting, and distributing (free of charge) these materials to the scientific community for use in genetic and genomic research.
• Rice Genetic Resources Stock Center (Japan)
This laboratory is responsible for the germplasm preservation of rice. As a result of extensive collections in tropical countries and generous donations from numerous sources since 1957, the size of the rice collection is now over 12,000 accessions of wild relatives in addition to two cultivated species, genetic testers and mutants. The collection has been used for studies of genetics and evolution by many scientists in different countries.
• Barley and Wheat Genetic Stocks Collections (NPGS, USA)
Barley genetic stocks that were previously stored at Colorado State University (CSU) and at the USDA-ARS National Seed Storage Laboratory (NSSL), Fort Collins, CO, were transferred to the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility (NSGGRF) at Aberdeen, ID in 1994. Barley aneuploids in this collection include: various primary trisomics, telotrisomics, and acrotrisomics. Seeds from the world collection of desynaptic mutants from Dr. R.T. Ramage and the Oregon Wolfe Barley Genetic Stocks from Dr. P. Hayes, are also now maintained in Aberdeen.
Part of the E.R. Sears Wheat Genetic Stocks Collection has been transferred to the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility (NSGGRF) in Aberdeen, Idaho. These stocks consist of various aneuploids of 'Chinese Spring' wheat, including: monosomic, trisomic, tetrasomic, nullisomic-tetrasomic, ditelosomic, double monotelosomic, double monoisosomic, di-monotelosomic, monotelodisomic, double ditelosomic, and various addition, substitution and translocation lines.
• Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resource Center (KSU, USA)
The Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center is located at Kansas State University. The WGGRC has three main missions:
1) collect, conserve, and utilize germplasm in crop improvement for sustainable production by broadening the crop genetic base, 2) create and promote the free exchange of materials, technology, and new knowledge in genetics and biotechnology among the world's public and private organizations, and 3) sponsor graduate and postgraduate students and visiting scientists for academic training and advanced research in the WGGRC laboratories.
The WGGRC maintains a gene bank, along with evaluation and passport data, on 2,500 wheat species accessions. In addition, the WGGRC houses 2,200 cytogenetic stocks, the genetic treasures produced by a lifetime of work by wheat scientists. The WGGRC has established a national and international network to conduct and coordinate genetic studies in wheat. Genes for host-plant resistance to viral, bacterial, fungal, and insect pests and abiotic stresses are identified, transferred to agronomically useful breeding lines, and deployed. The genetic bases of physiological, quality, and yield traits are studied. Chromosome and genetic maps of wheat and other Triticeae genera are developed. Biotechnological research emphasizes diagnostic assays, gene cloning, and plant transformation.
• Wheat Precise Genetic Stocks (JIC, UK)
The wheat precise genetic stocks, developed and maintained within the Genetic Resources Unit of the John Innes Centre, constists of aneuploids, alien introductions, and intervarietal substitutions. Advice on stock avaiability and their use is available through Steve Reader of the Crop Genetics Department of the John Innes Centre.
• The G.A. Marx Pea Genetic Stock Center
This collection of genetic stocks of Pisum sativum is the legacy of the late Dr. Gerald A. Marx, formerly of Cornell University. Throughout his career, Dr. Marx amassed some 80,000 seed packets, most of which have genotype data and other comments written on them. Dr. Marx, along with several other pea geneticists, extracted the accessions of his collection that best demonstrate mutations in this species, and the interaction of these mutations. This collection is now part of the National Plant Germplasm System and located in Pullman, Washington.
• The Phaseolus Genetic Stock Collection
This collection of genetic stocks of Phaseolus vulgaris has been created to emphasize the genetic analyses and studies of common bean. This collection consists of genetic markers, chromosome translocations, and the Lamprecht stocks. It is now part of the National Plant Germplasm System and located in Pullman, Washington.
• C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center (TGRC)
The C.M. Rick Tomato Genetic Resources Center (TGRC) is a genebank of wild relatives, monogenic mutants and miscellaneous genetic stocks of tomato. The wild species group (1,010 accessions) includes representatives of all nine Lycopersicon species, as well as 4 related Solanum species. The monogenic mutants (880 accessions) include spontaneous and induced mutations affecting all aspects of plant development, introgressed disease resistance genes, and protein marker stocks. The miscellaneous group (1,005 accessions) includes linkage tester stocks (multiple markers on a single chromosome), trisomics, translocations, Latin American varieties, and various types of interspecific prebreds (alien addition or substitution lines, introgressed quantitative traits, etc).
The collection was founded by Dr. Charles Rick in the Dept. of Vegetable Crops, University of California at Davis, who collected many of the wild species accessions in South America, and whose research program produced many of the marker and cytogenetic stocks. A large assembly of monogenic induced mutations was donated by the late Dr. Hans Stubbe (Gatersleben, Germany), Dr. Miguel Holle (CIP, Peru) made important wild species collections, and many other researchers worldwide have contributed germplasm. This collection is now part of the National Plant Germplasm System.
• Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative (CGC)
CGC was founded by Warren Henderson and Dick Lower (North Carolina State University) and Dick Robinson (Cornell University) in 1977. To assist with the preservation of single locus mutants in the major crop species, Gene Curators were appointed in 1986 for cucumber, melon, Cucurbita, and watermelon. In 1989, multiple curators were appointed for each major crop species to provide redundancy and security to the gene collections, one of which had been partially destroyed due to a fire in a seed storage facility.
• Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center Stocks (USA)
The Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) at The Ohio State University provides the following services to the Arabidopsis community: 1) collection, preservation and distribution of seeds, 2) DNA clone, library storage and distribution, and 3) data for all stocks and other information. These data are provided through and in collaboration with the TAIR database. ABRC distributes seeds upon request to North America and other locations outside of Europe.
• Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (UK)
The Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC) provides seed and information resources to the International Arabidopsis Genome Programme and the wider research community. It was established in April 1991 as part of the Plant Molecular Biology initiative of the Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC). It is based in the Plant Science Division of the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, UK. The Centre is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the EU and the University of Nottingham. NASC distributes seeds upon request to Europe and other locations outside of North America.
• Wisconsin Fast Plants Program (Crucifer Genetics Cooperative)
The Rapid Cycling Brassica Collection, RCBC, was established in 1982 by Paul Williams. Initially known as the Crucifer Genetics Cooperative (CrGC) the collection now resides under the Wisconsin Fast Plants Program website. This collection was established to develop, acquire, maintain and distribute information about various genetic stocks of rapid-cycling Brassica  and Raphanus  species as well as Crucifer-specific pathogens. For information, please email the Wisconsin Fast Plants Program at info@fastplants.org.
• International Moss Stock Center
The International Moss Stock Center which is located in Freiburg, Germany and managed by the Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (bioss) of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg collects, preserves and distributes moss mutants, transgenic lines and ecotypes.
• Chlamydomonas Genetics Center
The Chlamydomonas Genetics Center is an NSF-sponsored project that serves as a central repository to receive, catalogue, preserve and distribute stocks of nuclear and chloroplast mutants of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and other Chlamydomonas species in which extensive genetic analysis has been done. The Center also maintains and distributes genomic and cDNA clones of Chlamydomonas. nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial genes.
• The N.I. Vavilov Institute Plant Genetic Resources (VIR)
The N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry is the only research institution in Russia whose activities include plant genetics resources (PGR) collection, conservation and study. This Institute, its accomplishments, and role in maintaining the global ex situ collection are well known world-wide. Its global PGR collection represents plant diversity encompassing 320,000 accessions of 155 botanical families, 2,532 species of 425 genera. For instance, the collection harbours 95,000 accessions of grain crops (including 14,400 maize accessions), over 43,000 of legumes, 52,000 of groat crops, 26,000 of industrial crops, 28,000 of fodder crops, about 10,000 of potato, and 50,000 of vegetables. VIR also maintains a herbarium of 260,000 specimens.

Animal

• Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC)
The CGC acquires, maintains and distributes genetic stocks of Caenorhabditis elegans … Worm Breeder's Gazette.
• Drosophila Stock Center (Bloomington, IN)
The Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC) at Indiana University:
• Collects, maintains and distributes Drosophila melanogaster strains for research.
• Stock lists …
• Is associated with FlyBase.
• German Cockroach Genetic Stock Center
The Virginia Tech Department of Entomology … has resulted in the establishment of a Genetic Stock Center.
The stocks are a resource unique to Virginia Tech … pest management.
• Ascidian Stock Center
Ascidians are an emerging model system … tissue-specific fluorescent proteins.
• Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center (XGSC)
The Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center provides fish … numbers of genes assigned.
• Zebrafish International Resource Center
The Zebrafish International Resource Center is housed on the University of Oregon campus … being prepared.
• Ambystoma Genetic Stock Center
The AGSC is a genetic stock center … throughout the United States and abroad.
Our mission is to serve biology research programs … exchange of information and ideas.
• Mouse Mutant Stocks (Jackson Laboratory)
The Jackson Lab provides ordering … world-wide.
• Mutant Mouse Research and Resource Centers (MMRRC)
The MMRRC distributes and cryopreserves scientifically valuable … blastocysts.
• Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center
The deer mouse colony at the University of South Carolina … wild-type stocks.
• NIGMS Human Genetic Mutant Cell Repository
By providing the resources for human genome research … derived from these cultures.
• Interlab Project
The Cell Line Data Base … related to human diagnostics.
• ECACC: European Collection of Animal Cell Cultures
The ECACC was established in 1984 … DNA fingerprinting.

Fungal, algal and other protists

• Fungal Genetics Stock Center (FGSC)
FGSC contains databases for Aspergillus, Fusarium, Neurospora crassa, Neurospora sitophila, Neurospora tetrasperma … Newsletter are available.
• Yeast Genetic Resource Center (YGRC) (National BioResource Project - Yeast)
The Yeast Genetic Stock Center (YGSC) … collection is no longer intact there.
The YGRC presently maintains over 4,800 S. pombe strains and over 9,000 S. cerevisiae strains.
• Chlamydomonas Library Project (CLiP)
This website provides access to a collection of mutant strains … University of Minnesota.
• Tetrahymena Stock Center
The national Tetrahymena Stock Center (TSC) … natural sites.
• Dictyostelium Stock Center
The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum … scientific literature.
The National Tetrahymena Stock Center, located at Cornell University, … strains in the collection.

Prokaryote

• E. coli Genetic Stock Center (CGSC)
The E. coli Genetic Stock Center (CGSC) at Yale includes information … specific mutations.
• Salmonella Genetic Stock Centre (SGSC)
The SGSC maintains stocks of Salmonella … commercial laboratories.
• Pseudomonas Genetic Stock Center
This is a collection of strains derived from the prototrophic Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1 … have overseen this transition.
• Bacillus Genetic Stock Center (BGSC)
The primary mission of the Bacillus Genetic Stock Center (BGSC) … Dr. Daniel R. Zeigler.

General

• FASEB: Database of US Providers of Research Organisms
Living organisms, germplasm, tissue, and related biological products … update your entry.
• ATCC: The American Type Culture Collection
The American Type Culture Collection is a private, non-profit … Many of the media formulations are also available.
• GRIN: Germplasm Resource Information Network
A great deal of information about germplasms … quality data are also available in many cases.
• WDCM: World Data Centre for Microorganisms
World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM) provides a comprehensive directory … which collections contain which cultures.
Searching this database via WWW is a two step process … contact information for the collection that has the culture for which you searched.

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