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Pamela Strazzer1, Bets Verbree1, Mattijs Bliek1
1Plant Development and Genetics, Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Abstract:
Petunia hybrida is a plant model system used by many researchers to investigate a broad range of biological questions. One of the reasons for the success of this organism as a lab model is the existence of numerous mutants, involved in a wide range of processes, and the ever-increasing size of this collection owing to a highly active and efficient transposon system. We report here on the origin of petunia-based research and describe the collection of petunia lines housed in the University of Amsterdam, where many of the existing genotypes are maintained.
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