Vision, challenges and opportunities for a Plant Cell Atlas.
Plant Cell Atlas Consortium, Suryatapa Ghosh Jha, Alexander T Borowsky, Benjamin J Cole, Noah Fahlgren, Andrew Farmer, Shao-Shan Carol Huang, Purva Karia, Marc Libault, Nicholas J Provart, Selena L Rice, Maite Saura-Sanchez, Pinky Agarwal, Amir H Ahkami, Christopher R Anderton, Steven P Briggs, Jennifer An Brophy, Peter Denolf, Luigi F Di Costanzo, Moises Exposito-Alonso, Stefania Giacomello, Fabio Gomez-Cano, Kerstin Kaufmann, Dae Kwan Ko, Sagar Kumar, Andrey V Malkovskiy, Naomi Nakayama, Toshihiro Obata, Marisa S Otegui, Gergo Palfalvi, Elsa H Quezada-Rodríguez, Rajveer Singh, R Glen Uhrig, Jamie Waese, Klaas Van Wijk, R Clay Wright, David W Ehrhardt, Kenneth D Birnbaum, Seung Y Rhee
Author Information
: Plant Cell Atlas, Stanford, United States.
Suryatapa Ghosh Jha: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States. ORCID
Alexander T Borowsky: Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, United States. ORCID
Benjamin J Cole: Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Walnut Creek, United States. ORCID
Noah Fahlgren: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, United States. ORCID
Andrew Farmer: National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, United States. ORCID
Shao-Shan Carol Huang: Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, United States.
Purva Karia: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States. ORCID
Marc Libault: Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States. ORCID
Nicholas J Provart: Department of Cell and Systems Biology and the Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. ORCID
Selena L Rice: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States. ORCID
Maite Saura-Sanchez: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ORCID
Pinky Agarwal: National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India.
Amir H Ahkami: Environmental Molecular Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States. ORCID
Christopher R Anderton: Environmental Molecular Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States.
Steven P Briggs: Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States. ORCID
Jennifer An Brophy: Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States. ORCID
Peter Denolf: BASF Seeds & Traits, Ghent, Belgium. ORCID
Luigi F Di Costanzo: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy. ORCID
Moises Exposito-Alonso: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States. ORCID
Stefania Giacomello: SciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden. ORCID
Fabio Gomez-Cano: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States. ORCID
Kerstin Kaufmann: Department for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute for Biology, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. ORCID
Dae Kwan Ko: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States. ORCID
Sagar Kumar: Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Mata Gujri College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjabi University, Patiala, India. ORCID
Andrey V Malkovskiy: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States. ORCID
Naomi Nakayama: Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Toshihiro Obata: Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Madison, United States. ORCID
Marisa S Otegui: Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States. ORCID
Gergo Palfalvi: Division of Evolutionary Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan.
Elsa H Quezada-Rodríguez: Ciencias Agrogenómicas, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad León, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, León, Mexico. ORCID
Rajveer Singh: School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. ORCID
R Glen Uhrig: Department of Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. ORCID
Jamie Waese: Department of Cell and Systems Biology/Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. ORCID
Klaas Van Wijk: School of Integrated Plant Science, Plant Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States. ORCID
R Clay Wright: Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States.
David W Ehrhardt: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States.
Kenneth D Birnbaum: Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, United States.
Seung Y Rhee: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States. ORCID
With growing populations and pressing environmental problems, future economies will be increasingly plant-based. Now is the time to reimagine plant science as a critical component of fundamental science, agriculture, environmental stewardship, energy, technology and healthcare. This effort requires a conceptual and technological framework to identify and map all cell types, and to comprehensively annotate the localization and organization of molecules at cellular and tissue levels. This framework, called the Plant Cell Atlas (PCA), will be critical for understanding and engineering plant development, physiology and environmental responses. A workshop was convened to discuss the purpose and utility of such an initiative, resulting in a roadmap that acknowledges the current knowledge gaps and technical challenges, and underscores how the PCA initiative can help to overcome them.
