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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages 542-549Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2008.07.002
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [RE 837/10]
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung [0313852C, 031505713, 0313921]
- Landesstiftung Baden-Wurttemberg [P-LS-RNS/40]
- German-Israeli Foundation [I-832-130.12/2004]
- German Federal and State Governments [EXC 294]
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For decades, plant molecular biology has focused on only a few angiosperm species. Recently, the similar to 500 mega base pairs (Mb) of the haploid Physcomitrella patens genome were sequenced and annotated. Mosses such as P. patens occupy a key evolutionary position halfway between green algae and flowering plants. This draft genome, in comparison to existing genome data from other plants, allows evolutionary insights into the conquest of land by plants and the molecular biodiversity that land plants exhibit. As a model organism, P. patens provides a well-developed molecular toolbox, including efficient gene targeting in combination with the morphologically simple moss tissues. We describe current as well as future tools for P. patens research and the prospects they offer for plant research in general.
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