The Century Plant

The Twentieth Century Trajectory of Plant Biology

Plant Genomics in the 21st Century

It is my great pleasure as a Guest Editor of the journal Current Genomics to present you with a 'hot topic issue' on plant genomics. The complete sequence of genome of model plant Arabidopsis thaliana was a boost for plant genomics research. Following the path of Arabidopsis sequencing, hundreds of plant genomes are being sequenced and we have ocean of sequence data. It is a challenge for us to...

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...

New technologies for 21st century plant science.

Plants are one of the most fascinating and important groups of organisms living on Earth. They serve as the conduit of energy into the biosphere, provide food, and shape our environment. If we want to make headway in understanding how these essential organisms function and build the foundation for a more sustainable future, then we need to apply the most advanced technologies available to the s...

Twenty-first century plant biology: impacts of the Arabidopsis genome on plant biology and agriculture.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) rapidly emerged as a model system for plant biology due to the ease of genetic approaches to study development, physiology, and gene function coupled with a highly collaborative community. Arabidopsis’s position as the premiere model plant system was cemented in the early 1990s when the EST project commenced at Michigan State...