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Although Populus was not a favored experimental system for very many plant biologists in 2000, P. trichocarpa ultimately became only the third plant species to have its genome fully sequenced. Here we examine the many different factors that came into play when this species was abruptly elevated to the status of a new “model organism”.
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Ellis, B., Jansson, S., Strauss, S.H., Tuskan, G.A. (2010). Why and How Populus Became a “Model Tree”. In: Jansson, S., Bhalerao, R., Groover, A. (eds) Genetics and Genomics of Populus. Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1541-2_1
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