<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p><italic>Arabidopsis</italic> is universally acknowledged as the model for dicotyledonous crop plants.
Furthermore, some of the information gleaned from this small plant can be used to aid
work on monocotyledonous crops. Here we provide an overview of the current state of
knowledge and resources for the study of this important model plant, with comments on
future prospects in the field from Professor Pamela Green and Dr Sean May.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2001 Apr; 2(2):91-98