The cruciferous plant Arabidopsis thialiana has become a model system for the study of an unusually wide variety of aspects of plant biology, including genetics, growth and development, biochemistry, physiology and responses to pathogens and environmental stress. This book presents a state-of-the-art summary.
`This book, running as it does through plant systematics, genetics, developmental biology, hormones, the chloroplast, pathology, the cell wall, metabolism and many other topics, should be dipped into by plant physiologists, biochemists and breeders and should convert doubters to the virtues of the weed.' Nature