Database On Tiny Plant Will Help Scientists Create Better Crops, Biofuels and Medicines
Date: 11.7.2009
A tiny plant with a long name (Arabidopsis thaliana) helps researchers from over 120 countries learn how to design new crops to help meet increasing demands for **food**, **biofuels**, **industrial materials**, and **new medicines**. The genes, proteins, and other traits of this fast-growing, tiny mustard plant reside in a vast database dubbed the Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), which has over 1.6 million page hits each month.
Source "sciencedaily.com":[ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622103907.htm]
