The Amsterdam petunia germplasm collection: A tool in plant science

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Petunia hybrida is a plant model system used by many researchers to investigate a broad range of biological questions. One of the reasons for the success of this organism as a lab model is the existence of numerous mutants, involved in a wide range of processes, and the ever-increasing size of this collection owing to a highly active and efficient transposon system. We report here on the origin of petunia-based research and describe the collection of petunia lines housed in the University of Amsterdam, where many of the existing genotypes are maintained.

Keywords

• petunia
• germplasm collection
• model system
• Solanaceae
• speciation
• mutant lines