1. AOAPO executive committee members Hosseini Salekdeh and Paul A. Haynes are working on a manuscript describing a large scale draft of the rice proteome.

2. The AOAPO executive committee are working with Dr Bernhard Kuster at Technical University of Munich on a very large project aimed at characterising the expressed proteome of the 100 food crops which feed the world. This is likely to involve contributions from quite a few different members of AOAPO and will require significant coordination.