University of Western Australia: CropPAL Compendium of crop Proteins with Annotated Locations
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Hooper, Cornelia
Millar, Harvey
Duncan, Owen
The compendium of crop Proteins with Annotate Locations (cropPAL) is a comprehensive collection of subcellular location annotation for proteins of hordeum vulgare (barley), tritium aestivum (wheat), oryza sativa (rice) and zea mays (corn) derived from published experimental localization studies and precompiled bioinformatic predictions. A user-friendly search interface is provided on the cropPAL web server.
 Crop power is a data collection of localisations and locations of proteins within the cell. Now the collection itself contains four major crops that have high importance in the societies and economy around the world. That includes rice and corn but also more recent research species such as wheat and barley. So the aim of Crop Power is to really bring together data sets from around the world. There's people all over the place making this information. If we can aggregate that and put it in one place it helps in a variety of ways. Now we thought maybe we need to find out by doing experiments but in fact we found that there's an awful lot of data already out there. It's already available. It just had never been put together. So what Crop Power was about was saying how do we get that information about proteins, in crops, pull it all together from around the world to be in some senses a power, a help to people who are wanting to know where things are in cells. One of the things that we found already is that the proportion of proteins which are in particular kinds of roles varies between these crops. So the proportionate effort that they put into protein synthesis or the proportion they might put into defence or photosynthesis varies. And so this is important in understanding why we have these major crops, why they're grown in different locations and what the economic opportunities are for different plants as the climate changes to actually cope with the future world requirements we have to feed the plants. There is a benefit to the scientists but there's also a benefit to the industry because the way we look at breeding is slowly changing so we need to have a more predictable way of breeding plants so we don't just try a lot of different things. We want to have a targeted approach to say we have more success if we know what to target in our breeding. So by using this data we will be able to unlock more knowledge about the functions and the proteins in the plant and to develop more competitive crop plants. So I think one of the things it'll do is actually show the holes. It's not always what you want data to do, you want data to actually achieve things as well but it will do both. It will actually show ways that countries and research communities can be working together internationally but it'll also show areas of investment that are required. So a lot of different kinds of people will benefit. Individual researchers will benefit because they can ask the question about one protein and where it is if they're very interested in working on it. Biotechnology companies can actually go and gain access to the information because it's all public. We see that with the work that we've been doing on salinity and temperature responses in wheat that the capability and information that we have actually enables us to work with farmers and people who are actually doing field trials and trying to understand what's more temperature sensitive or temperature tolerant in wheat and what's more salinity tolerant in wheat and working out what the proteins are that are responsible for that. Growing up in Western Australia it's very difficult to escape the fact that salinity is a major problem for wheat farmers in the wheat belt. Certainly when I was a kid we went on a primary school expedition to go and see saline soils and crops which were affected by salinity and I suppose that affected me. It made me see that landowners and farmers are suffering and that with biochemistry and new techniques that we have here we can really bring solutions to them to help Australia succeed and help our farmers succeed.
 Crop power is a data collection of localisations and locations of proteins within the cell.  Now the collection itself contains four major crops that have high importance in the societies  and economy around the world. That includes rice and corn but also more recent research  species such as wheat and barley. So the aim of Crop Power is to really bring together data  sets from around the world. There's people all over the place making this information.  If we can aggregate that and put it in one place it helps in a variety of ways. Now we thought maybe  we need to find out by doing experiments but in fact we found that there's an awful lot of data  already out there. It's already available. It just had never been put together. So what Crop Power was  about was saying how do we get that information about proteins, in crops, pull it all together from  around the world to be in some senses a power, a help to people who are wanting to know where things  are in cells. One of the things that we found already is that the proportion of proteins which  are in particular kinds of roles varies between these crops. So the proportionate effort that they  put into protein synthesis or the proportion they might put into defence or photosynthesis  varies. And so this is important in understanding why we have these major crops, why they're  grown in different locations and what the economic opportunities are for different plants as the  climate changes to actually cope with the future world requirements we have to feed the plants.  There is a benefit to the scientists but there's also a benefit to the industry because the way  we look at breeding is slowly changing so we need to have a more predictable way of breeding plants  so we don't just try a lot of different things. We want to have a targeted approach to say we have  more success if we know what to target in our breeding. So by using this data we will be able  to unlock more knowledge about the functions and the proteins in the plant and to develop  more competitive crop plants. So I think one of the things it'll do is actually show the holes.  It's not always what you want data to do, you want data to actually achieve things as well but it  will do both. It will actually show ways that countries and research communities can be working  together internationally but it'll also show areas of investment that are required. So a lot of  different kinds of people will benefit. Individual researchers will benefit because they can ask  the question about one protein and where it is if they're very interested in working on it.  Biotechnology companies can actually go and gain access to the information because it's all public.  We see that with the work that we've been doing on salinity and temperature responses in wheat  that the capability and information that we have actually enables us to work with farmers and people  who are actually doing field trials and trying to understand what's more temperature sensitive or  temperature tolerant in wheat and what's more salinity tolerant in wheat and working out what  the proteins are that are responsible for that. Growing up in Western Australia it's very difficult  to escape the fact that salinity is a major problem for wheat farmers in the wheat belt.  Certainly when I was a kid we went on a primary school expedition to go and see saline soils  and crops which were affected by salinity and I suppose that affected me. It made me see that  landowners and farmers are suffering and that with biochemistry and new techniques that we have here  we can really bring solutions to them to help Australia succeed and help our farmers succeed.
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