摘要
In November 1998, a group of scientists met in Palo Alto, California, at an NSF-sponsored workshop to discuss the grand challenges facing biology at that time. Their primary aim was to identify areas in which plant science could provide important and lasting contributions to addressing these challenges. A key recommendation from their report was to focus sufficient resources on the reference plant Arabidopsis to be able to exploit fully its soon to be completed genome sequence. Nine years later, as we near completion of the 2010 program, it is appropriate to step back,
In November 1998, a group of scientists met in Palo Alto, California, at an NSF-sponsored workshop to discuss the grand challenges facing biology at that time. Their primary aim was to identify areas in which plant science could provide important and lasting contributions to addressing these challenges. A key recommendation from their report was to focus sufficient resources on the reference plant Arabidopsis to be able to exploit fully its soon to be completed genome sequence. Nine years later, as we near completion of the 2010 program, it is appropriate to step back,
