Joseph Ecker.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 291, Nº. 6, 2004, págs. 45-45
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Discusses the contribution made to plant genomics by Joseph Ecker, a professor of plant biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. Future improvements in agriculture depend on determining the functions of plant genes. In 2003 Joseph Ecker and his group made important contributions by identifying a number of key signaling components in the ethylene pathway of Arabidopsis, a plant commonly used as a model for genetic studies. In addition, Ecker, an early proponent and participant in sequencing the Arabidopsis genome, published an elegant experiment that identified most of the transcripts, or genetic coding, in the plant using a set of gene chips.