The Versailles Arabidopsis Stock Center provides seeds useful to the international research community. It is based in Versailles (France), at the Jean-Pierre Bourgin Institute (IJPB) of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA).
Seed stocks available for distribution include:
described in Capilla-Perez, L., Solier, V., Portemer, V., Chambon, A., Hurel, A., Guillebaux, A., … Mercier, R. (2018). The HEM Lines: A New Library of Homozygous Arabidopsis thaliana EMS Mutants and its Potential to Detect Meiotic Phenotypes. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, 1339. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01339
Building-up and preservation of seed stocks are conducted according to defined protocols. Backups of stocks are maintained to ensure preservation. An identifying number is assigned to each seed batch and is associated to a barcode that allows a computerized follow-up from sowing to distribution.