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Arabidopsis thaliana, not much more than a ‘steekin little weed’, has proved to be a towering giant in revealing gene structure, function and location in plants. Genes tend to be conserved over time, even as speciation takes place. It’s been shown to be reasonable to suppose that if a gene found in Arabidopsis does a …

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