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Arabidopsis and primary photosynthetic metabolism - more than the icing on the cake.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Mar 2010
Stitt Mark, Lunn John, Usadel Björn
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Historically speaking, Arabidopsis was not the plant of choice for investigating photosynthesis, with physiologists and biochemists favouring other species such as Chlorella, spinach and pea. However, its inherent advantages for forward genetics rapidly led to its adoption for photosynthesis research. In the last ten years, the availability of the Arabidopsis genome sequence - still the gold-standard for plant...
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