<i>Arabidopsis</i> Plant (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

<i>Arabidopsis</i> Plant

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Studies on Arabidopsis plants like this six-week-old lab-grown specimen show that the genes of mitochondria and chloroplasts have a disproportionate effect on cellular metabolism compared to the far more numerous nuclear genes.

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Baohua Li, UC Davis

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