Open AccessOf maize and men, or peas and people: case histories to justify plants and other model systems
Author(s) -
David C. Baulcombe
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nature medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.536
H-Index - 547
eISSN - 1546-170X
pISSN - 1078-8956
DOI - 10.1038/nm1008-1046
Subject(s) - agronomy , biology
One of the byproducts of molecular biology has been support for the 'model system' concept. All living organisms are based on the same genetic code, they have similar subcellular structures and they use homologous metabolic pathways.
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