Seed Projects

Seed Projects are a means of soliciting collaboration requests from the community, with the goal of developing potential future Grand Challenge projects and identifying additional community needs. This strategy was created in response to community feedback requesting a streamlined process for engaging with iPlant. Seed Projects are an alternative approach to proposing a Grand Challenge Workshop, which is still an option.

At the iPlant 2010 Conference, community members were invited to submit small Seed Projects that included a cyberinfrastructure-related deliverable. Four white papers were received and are moving forward: Botanical Geospatial Diversity (Brian Enquist), Plant Adaptation to Environment (David Salt, John McKay, John Willis), Plant Nutrition (Ivan Baxter, Martin Broadley, Matt Hudson), and Tree Biology (David Neale). In addition, since cyberinfrastructure support for geospatially-referenced data was a major, common need for advancing the plant science research in the Seed Projects, iPlant formed a community-lead Geographic Information System (GIS) working group to collaborate with iPlant to scope and develop its GIS infrastructure.

The four Seed Project white papers, including lists of the community members involved in each, are available below.

Previously Submitted Whitepapers

• Tree Biology Cyberinfrastructure
• Botanical Geospatial Diversity Cyberinfrastructure
• Plant Nutrition Cyberinfrastructure
• Plant Adaptation to the Environment Cyberinfrastructure