"[People] had been developing Arabidopsis microarrays for a number of years, and these were some of the first papers that published high-quality data with real biological conclusions," says Chris Town ...

In the early 1990s, my colleagues and I at Stanford University began tinkering with an interesting weed, the small flowering mustard plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. We set out to study genes involved in ...

Nature uses a common framework when building organisms as different as yeast, worms, fruit flies, mice, and humans. This makes it possible for scientists to learn about how our own genes work by ...

The microarray facility at MSU is part of the Arabidopsis Functional Genomics Consortium (AFGC), a collaboration recently funded by the National Science Foundation. Together with Shauna Sommerville at ...