1 Agricultural Sustainability Institute and Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California, Davis, California 95616.
2 Biology Department, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802.
3 GARNet, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom.
4 Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521.
5 School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
6 Department of Biology and Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405.
7 Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824.
8 Department of Plant Biology, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602.
9 Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter, 1030 Vienna, Austria; Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037.
10 Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan; RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan.
11 Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California 94305.
12 Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695.
13 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63132.
14 Institute of Network Biology, Department of Environmental Science, Helmholtz Zentrum München, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
15 Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, Athens, Georgia 30602.
16 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824.
17 FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation, Millennium Nucleus Center for Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile 8331150.
18 Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Plants, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany.
19 Laboratoire de Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Université Montpellier, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Plantes "Claude Grignon," Place Viala, 34060 Montpellier cedex, France.
20 School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
21 Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616.
22 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Department of Computer Science, and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331.
23 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63132; Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211.
24 School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, Wales, United Kingdom.
25 Department of Cell and Systems Biology/Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada.
26 Syngenta Crop Protection, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.
27 Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.
28 American Society of Plant Biologists, Rockville, Maryland 20855.
29 Data Carpentry, Davis, California 95616.
30 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195.
31 J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850.
32 Life Sciences Computing, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, Texas 78758.
33 Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130.
34 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724; U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York 14853.
35 Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada.
36 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695.
37 Department of Plant Biology, Genome Center, University of California, Davis, California 95616 sbrady@ucdavis.edu.
Training for experimental plant biologists needs to combine bioinformatics, quantitative approaches, computational biology, and training in the art of collaboration, best achieved through fully integrated curriculum development.