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This volume addresses characteristics of model plants such as Arabidopsis, moss, soybean, maize, and cotton, highlighting their advantages and limitations as well as their importance in studies of plant development, plant genome polyploidization, adaptive selection, evolution, and domestication, as well as their importance in crop improvement.
Model plants are required for research when targeted plant species are difficult to study or when research material is unavailable. Importantly, knowledge gained from model plants can be generally translated to other related plant species because many key cellular and molecular processes are conserved and regulated by ‘blueprint’ genes inherited from a common ancestor.
Model Plants for Discovering the Key Biological Processes in Plant Research
Overview of Arabidopsis as a Genetics Model System and Its Limitation, Leading to the Development of Emerging Plant Model Systems
Mosses: Accessible Systems for Plant Development Studies
Maize (Zea mays L.) as a Model System for Plant Genetic, Genomic, and Applied Research
Cotton as a Model for Polyploidy and Fiber Development Study
Soybean as a Model Crop to Study Plant Oil Genes: Mutations in FAD2 Gene Family