[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • December 17, 2000
    ``Just as animal biologists and medical researchers have used model organisms such as Drosophila and the nematode, so plant biologists have relied upon the mustard Arabidopsis thaliana to help them understand the genetics, physiology, development and structure of plants in general. Although the efforts of Arabidopsis sequencers has perhaps been less heralded than those of their colleagues working on animal genomes, the results they have yielded are no less scientifically interesting. Arabidopsis may be a simple plant (it's detractors call it a weed!) with only 50 identified cells types and no complex nervous system or behavioural response, but its genome is surprisingly complex. Chromosomes 2 and 4 of Arabidopsis were published in Nature at the end of 1999, now followed by chromosomes 1, 3 and 5.''

    Full story:
    http://www.nature.com/genomics/papers/a_thaliana.html

    Also at ABC Online News:
    http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s223533.htm

    References by Nodalpoint.org and Slashdot.org.

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