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Secrets of the world's most popular bedding plant unlocked

Nature Plants volume 2, Article number: 16082 (2016) Cite this article

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Boosted by next-generation sequencing technology, there is now an ever-growing list of fully sequenced plant genomes. Recent additions to this list are two presumed ancestors of Petunia hybrida, the most popular bedding plant worldwide. These genome sequences provide new information on a species at a key position in plant phylogeny, and support the use of petunia as a research model plant species.

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  1. Alexander R. van der Krol and Richard G. H. Immink are in the Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands.,

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van der Krol, A., Immink, R. Secrets of the world's most popular bedding plant unlocked. Nature Plants 2, 16082 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.82

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