Talk:History of research on Arabidopsis thaliana

Why is the the history of A. thaliana research notable?
The growth of the A. thaliana research community is the single most important development in plant biology in the last quarter of the twentieth century, coinciding with the flowering of plant molecular genetics and genomics. The publication and citation footprint of work on A. thaliana is enormous. Because A. thaliana will remain the most commonly used model plant for the forseable future, its history (and the related resources available) will remain relevant.

JS Hoyer (talk) 17:02, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Other notes
Original model for this page: similarly named C. elegans history page, which actually has little on RNA interference, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, H. Robert Horvitz etc.

Pages one could imagine: JS Hoyer (talk) 14:39, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * History of research on Drosophila melanogaster
 * History of research on Zea mays (maize)
 * History of research on Nicotiana benthamiana (or Nicotiana species more broadly)

Structure
The page follows a chronological structure at the top level, but there are several themes/developments that fit under multiple headings. The section on the genome project is shortest, unfortunately, partly because some related issues are addressed in the sections proceeding and following it.

JS Hoyer (talk) 21:22, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Genetic mapping is addressed in multiple sections
 * Transformation is addressed in molecular genetics section and again in the text on genome-wide mutagenesis