Flower Power
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Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed. —Alfred Lord Tennyson (from The Flower)
Spring is in the air and plant genome research is blossoming. In celebration, this issue of Genome Research highlights several papers describing budding research in plant comparative genomics. In our cover article, Laitinen and colleagues (p. 475), demonstrate the utility of complementing studies in model plants, such as Arabidopsis, with those in species from different families of flowering plants. In this work, the functional annotation of a Gerbera EST database with nearly 17,000 sequences constructed from various tissues is described and compared with the genome …
