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Nature Reviews Genetics 3, 883-889 (November 2002) | doi:10.1038/nrg927
Timeline: A fortunate choice: the history of Arabidopsis as a model plant
Chris Somerville1 & Maarten Koornneef2 About the authors
Abstract
During the past 20 years, the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been adopted as a model organism by thousands of biologists. This community has developed important tools, resources and experimental approaches that have greatly stimulated plant biological research. Here, we review some of the key events that led to the uptake of Arabidopsis as a model plant and to the growth of the Arabidopsis community.
Author affiliations
- Chris Somerville is at the Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
- Maarten Koornneef is at the Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, Arboretumlaan 4, 6703 BD Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Correspondence to: Chris Somerville1 Email: crs@andrew2.stanford.edu
Correspondence to: Maarten Koornneef2 Email: maarten.koornneef@wur.nl
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