title: Field Guide to Plant Model Systems.
abstract: For the past several decades, advances in plant development, physiology, cell biology, and genetics have relied heavily on the model (or reference) plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Arabidopsis resembles other plants, including crop plants, in many but by no means all respects. Study of Arabidopsis alone provides little information on the evolutionary history of plants, evolutionary differences between species, plants that survive in different environments, or plants that access nutrients and photosynthesize differently. Empowered by the availability of large-scale sequencing and new technologies for investigating gene function, many new plant models are being proposed and studied.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-5815, USA. Electronic address: carenc@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Caren
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia. Electronic address: john.bowman@monash.edu.
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bowman
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Electronic address: meyerow@caltech.edu.
authors.forename: Elliot M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Meyerowitz
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis; D044822:Biodiversity; D005075:Biological Evolution; D000460:Chlorophyta; D008954:Models, Biological; D063245:Plant Development; D010944:Plants