18^(th) ICAR, 2007

The International community of Arabidopsis researchers continues to grow. From an initial group of about 25 scientists that participated in the first International Arabidopsis Symposium in Germany in 1965, there

The International community of Arabidopsis researchers continues to grow. From an initial group of about 25 scientists that participated in the first International Arabidopsis Symposium in Germany in 1965, there are currently more than 15 000 Arabidopsis researchers in nearly 6 000 laboratories worldwide. While the second and third conferences occurred in roughly 10 year intervals, interest in Arabidopsis research rapidly increased in the 1980＇s. Beginning in 1995 this led to annual meetings, now called the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research （ICAR）; since that year, the Arabidopsis meeting convenes approximately two out of every three years in the United States, with each third meeting held outside the U.S.