Time to articulate a vision for the future of plant proteomics – A global perspective: An initiative for establishing the International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO) Ganesh Kumar Agrawal 1 , Dominique Job 2à , Michel Zivy 3à , Vishwanath P. Agrawal 1 , Ralph A. Bradshaw 4 , Michael J. Dunn 5 , Paul A. Haynes 6 , Klaas J. van Wijk 7 , Shoshi Kikuchi 8 , Jenny Renaut 9 , Wolfram Weckwerth 10 and Randeep Rakwal 1,11,12à 1 Research Laboratory for Biotechnology and Biochemistry (RLABB), Kathmandu, Nepal 2 CNRS/UCBL/INSA/Bayer CropScience Joint Laboratory, UMR 5240, Bayer CropScience, Lyon, France 3 INRA/University Paris-Sud/CNRS/AgroParisTech, UMR 0320/UMR 8120 Ge ´ ne ´ tique Ve ´ ge ´ tale, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 4 Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of California, San Francisco, Parnassus, San Francisco, CA, USA 5 UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 6 Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia 7 Department of Plant Biology, Emerson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 8 Plant Genome Research Unit, Division of Genome and Biodiversity Research, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 9 Centre de Recherche Public-Gabriel Lippman, Department of Environment and Agrobiotechnologies (EVA), Belvaux, GD, Luxembourg 10 Department of Molecular Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 11 School of Medicine, Showa University, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan 12 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan Received: September 26, 2010 Revised: November 23, 2010 Accepted: December 27, 2010 Given the essential role of proteomics in understanding the biology of plants, we are establishing a global plant proteomics organization to properly organize, preserve and disseminate collected information on plant proteomics. We call this organization ‘International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO; http://www.inppo.com).’ Ten initiatives of INPPO are outlined along with how to address them in multiple phases. As our vision is global, we sincerely hope the scientific communities around the world will come together to support and join INPPO. Keywords: INPPO / Omics / Organism / Plant / Plant proteomics / Systems biology 1 Proteomics of plant biology The credit for coining the term ‘proteomics’ goes to Marc Wilkins [1], who was able to put forward a vision of what could be done using what were, at the time, very new technologies. The groundswell of support since then has helped transform proteomics into a truly international scientific discipline in its own right (for views and reviews, [2–19]). As is the case for other organisms (especially Abbreviations: INPPO, International Plant Proteomics Organiza- tion; QTL, quantitative trait locus à Additional corresponding authors: Dominique Job, e-mail: dominique.job@bayercropscience.com; Michel Zivy, e-mail: zivy@moulon.inra.fr; Randeep Rakwal, e-mail: plantproteomics@gmail.com Colour Online: See the article online to view Figs. 1, 2, 4 and 5 in colour Correspondence: Dr. Ganesh Kumar Agrawal, Research Laboratory for Biotechnology and Biochemistry (RLABB), GPO Box 13265, Kathmandu, Nepal E-mail: gkagrawal123@gmail.com & 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim www.proteomics-journal.com Proteomics 2011, 11, 1559–1568 1559 DOI 10.1002/pmic.201000608