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Published June 13, 2008 | Version Accepted Version
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The Impact of Arabidopsis on Human Health: Diversifying Our Portfolio

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  • 1. ROR icon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • 2. ROR icon Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  • 3. ROR icon Indiana University Bloomington
  • 4. ROR icon University of California, Los Angeles
  • 5. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 6. ROR icon University of Southern California
  • 7. ROR icon Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

Abstract

Studies of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana may seem to have little impact on advances in medical research, yet a survey of the scientific literature shows that this is a misconception. Many discoveries with direct relevance to human health and disease have been elaborated using Arabidopsis, and several processes important to human biology are more easily studied in this versatile model plant.

Additional Information

© 2008 Elsevier Inc. Available online 12 June 2008. We thank Xing-Wang Deng for helpful comments. The authors' research is funded by the NIH, NSF, DOE, USDA, HFSP, HHMI, DFG, European Commission, and Max Planck Society.

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PMC3124625
Eprint ID
72496
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CaltechAUTHORS:20161201-123243461

Funding

NIH
NSF
Department of Energy (DOE)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Human Frontier Science Program
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
European Commission
Max Planck Society

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